Royal Citadel Transit Accommodation
ROYAL CITADEL TRANSIT ACCOMMODATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067151
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Citadel Transit Accommodation
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL CITADEL TRANSIT ACCOMMODATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067151
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Citadel Transit Accommodation
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL CITADEL TRANSIT ACCOMMODATION
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:
- ROYAL CITADEL TRANSIT ACCOMMODATION
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 48174 53783
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4853NW THE BARBICAN 740-1/67/879 Royal Citadel: Transit Accommodation 08/07/98
GV II
Former hospital. Mid C18, built by the Ordnance Board. Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings, all rendered except for the centre and right of the ground floor at the front and the mid-floor band. Rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: symmetrical 5-window front. Late C19 or C20 horned sashes with glazing bars, in openings spanned by keyed arches (where visible). Central flat-roofed porch has doorway on its left and slit window on its right. INTERIOR: not inspected, but known to have been remodelled late C20. HISTORY: one of the oldest surviving military hospitals, with that at Berwick-on-Tweed. Staffed by civilians, permanent barracks hospitals were not generally available until the Napoleonic Wars. With the contemporary buildings, this forms part of the best C17 fort in England. (Woodward FW: Plymouth's Defences: Devon: 1990-: 9; Woodward FW: Citadel: Devon: 1987-; Saunders A: Fortress Britain: Portsmouth: 1989-).
Listing NGR: SX4817453783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473151
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Woodward, F W, Citadel, (1987)
Woodward, F W, Plymouth's Defences, (1990)
Saunders, A D, Fortress Britain, (1989)
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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