College View

When first begun in the late 1870s Plymouth high School for Boys stood almost in splendid isolation, there were a handful of villas to the east (all bar one now part of the school complex) and a line of properties to the north west along the line of Hyde Park Road, but to the south and west all was clear right down to the Plymouth, devonport and Stonehouse Cemetery.

In 1883 the school was renamed Plymouth college and over the decades that followed the area became inreasingly built up. Before the century was out the school field had been enclosed on two sides by Devon Terrace and the aptly named College View. It is a view that has changed little over the years, the main school block, although representing just a part of the architect's original vision, looks much the same now as it did in 1880 and the school field has suffered only minor intrusions since then; the sports pavilion dates back to the thirties, the "new" hall to the early 1970s.

EH 25 January 1997