Ablution Blocks
ABLUTION BLOCKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067137
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Ablution Blocks
- Statutory Address:
- ABLUTION BLOCKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067137
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Ablution Blocks
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABLUTION BLOCKS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ABLUTION BLOCKS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 46814 52869
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX45SE DRAKE'S ISLAND 740-1/7/235 Ablution Blocks 19/12/90
GV II
Barracks ablution block. c1830-35. Stone rubble, faced in dressed limestone to S and E sides; dry slate roof with coped gable ends; rendered stack at W end. Rectangular plan, the ground floor with doorways to the N front, 1st-floor doorways to S front from higher ground level. The ground floor probably contained washrooms and the 1st floor may have served as living accommodation. 2 storeys; 6-bay S front with doorways to C20 porches; 12-pane sashes to bays 3, 4 and 5. The porches are on bridges over deep area to ground floor with access to area from east and behind a high wall stepped down to north. N elevation has various windows and doorways to ground floor and one 1st-floor window. INTERIOR: of ground floor much altered otherwise not inspected (1990 list description).
Listing NGR: SX4681452869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473137
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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