Plympton Guildhall is a

Grade II* In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

listed building in

Plympton Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Plym ...

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...

, England. Standing at 42 Fore Street, Plympton's main street, it dates to 1688. It was built at the joint expense of Sir George Treby (1643–1700) and Richard Strode (1638–1707) of Newnham,

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for Plympton Erle.Pevsner, p.684; Strode's heraldic stone tablet on the facade of the Guildhall has worn to illegibility, unlike Treby's which is in good condition It is constructed of roughly coursed rubble with dressed granite

quoins Quoins ( or ) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. According to one 19th century encyclopedia, t ...

Coat of arms detail

File:1688TrebyArms PlymptonGuildhall.JPG, Arms of Sir George Treby with crest: a demi-lion rampant

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Grade II* listed buildings in Devon Buildings and structures in Plympton, Devon 1688 establishments in England

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