FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 4 TO 7 (CONSECUTIVE) AND WALLS AND RAILINGS

FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 4 TO 7 (CONSECUTIVE) AND WALLS AND RAILINGS, 4-7, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113317
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 4 TO 7 (CONSECUTIVE) AND WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 4 TO 7 (CONSECUTIVE) AND WALLS AND RAILINGS, 4-7, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2003-02-18
Reference:: IOE01/06372/03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113317
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 4 TO 7 (CONSECUTIVE) AND WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 4 TO 7 (CONSECUTIVE) AND WALLS AND RAILINGS, 4-7, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 4 TO 7 (CONSECUTIVE) AND WALLS AND RAILINGS, 4-7, HIGH STREET

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:: SX4646854645

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4654NW HIGH STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/55/816 (North side) 01/05/75 Former Royal Naval Hospital: The Square Nos.4-7 (consec) and walls & railings (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET, Stonehouse Royal Naval Hospital: Residences Nos.4, 5, 6 & 7 including area railings)

GV II

Officier's houses at former Naval Hospital, now houses. 1765, designed by Alexander Rovehead for the Navy Board; rendered 1921. Red brick front, now rendered; dry slate mansard roof with dormer windows; rendered brick stacks. Rectangular double-depth plan. 3 storeys plus attics over basement; nearly symmetrical 12-window front with central 6 broken forward and surmounted by pediment. Basement as plinth, band above ground floor and 1st-floor sill string. Late C19 4-pane horned sashes. Triangular pediment over central pair of fluted pilastered doorways; another doorway to left; glazed and panelled doors. INTERIOR: not inspected but said to be of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: low plinth over basement wall surmounted by original wrought-iron railings and rubble walls at rear linked to Stables (qv). HISTORY: built as four houses on west side of the Square, terminating the important main axis through the hospital. Accommodated the physician, surgeon, steward and agent in 1800, later used for a mess. Stonehouse is of international importance as a pioneering hospital plan. Part of an outstanding and complete military hospital complex. (Morrison K: Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse: Cambridge: 1992-: 100373).

Listing NGR: SX4646854645

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Legacy System number:: 473514
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Morrison, K, Royal Naval Hospital Stonehouse, (1992), 100373

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.