Former Dock Police Station and Custom Office at South East Entrance to Millbay Docks
FORMER DOCK POLICE STATION AND CUSTOM OFFICE AT SOUTH EAST ENTRANCE TO MILLBAY DOCKS, GREAT WESTERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113301
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Former Dock Police Station and Custom Office at South East Entrance to Millbay Docks
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER DOCK POLICE STATION AND CUSTOM OFFICE AT SOUTH EAST ENTRANCE TO MILLBAY DOCKS, GREAT WESTERN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113301
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Dock Police Station and Custom Office at South East Entrance to Millbay Docks
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER DOCK POLICE STATION AND CUSTOM OFFICE AT SOUTH EAST ENTRANCE TO MILLBAY DOCKS, GREAT WESTERN ROAD
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:
- FORMER DOCK POLICE STATION AND CUSTOM OFFICE AT SOUTH EAST ENTRANCE TO MILLBAY DOCKS, GREAT WESTERN ROAD
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:
- SX4715253669
Details
SX4753
740-1/66/316
PLYMOUTH
Hoe, West
GREAT WESTERN ROAD, (South West side)
Former Dock Police Station & Custom Office at SE entrance to Millbay Docks
(Formerly Listed as: GREAT WESTERN ROAD, Plymouth, Former Dock Police Station and Customs Office at SE entrance to Millbay Docks)
01/05/75
GV
II
Customs tower at entrance to docks. Early-mid C19. Plymouth limestone rubble and dressed limestone; flat roof behind parapet with stepped cornice and square coping. Octagonal plan tower plus semicircular-on-plan stair turret with domed roof to rear side; small flat-roofed single-storey extension clasping left-hand rear between tower and old boundary wall. 3 storeys; each side with 1 window to each floor; openings over doorway and to left and right-hand sides blind. Original 12-pane hornless sashes; ground floor with keyed round arches framing recessed panels and between rusticated ashlar piers which rise flush with moulded mid-floor string; round-arched windows and doorway with C20 door.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A good example of its type, the hexagonal plan facilitating all-round vision of the area.
Listing NGR: SX4715253669
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473464
- 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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