Former Royal Naval Hospital: the Square Numbers 8 and 9 and Area Walls and Railings
FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND AREA WALLS AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1113318
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND AREA WALLS AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1113318
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND AREA WALLS AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE SQUARE NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND AREA WALLS AND RAILINGS, 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:
- SX4648254681
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654NW HIGH STREET, Stonehouse
740-1/55/817 (North side)
01/05/75 Former Royal Naval Hospital: The
Square Nos.8 & 9 and area walls &
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET, Stonehouse
Royal Naval Hospital: Residences
Nos.8 & 9. The Medical Mess)
GV II
Official residences including admiral's house. 1806, probably
by Daniel Alexander (1768-1846); restored after bomb damage.
Plymouth limestone ashlar; dry slate hipped roof with
projecting eaves; 4 round-arched roof dormers; 2 ashlar axial
stacks. Rectangular double-depth plan plus bowed projection to
rear left.
3 storeys plus attic over basement; symmetrical 9-window front
with band over ground floor and with 1st-floor sill band. Flat
arches over late C19 4-pane horned sashes. Central
semicircular-on-plan porch with Tuscan columns and
entablature; glazed curved door and flanking windows between
columns.
INTERIOR: not inspected but said to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: low plinth over basement wall surmounted
by wrought-iron railings.
HISTORY: one of two similar blocks of 1806 on the north and
south sides of the Square, which was laid out for officers'
houses on the main axis through the hospital. 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: SX4648254681
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473515
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morrison, K, Royal Naval Hospital Stonehouse, (1992), 100373
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