Former Cooperage at Southdown Quay
Former Cooperage at Southdown Quay, Southdown Quay
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115140
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Cooperage at Southdown Quay
- Statutory Address:
- Former Cooperage at Southdown Quay, Southdown Quay
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115140
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Cooperage at Southdown Quay
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Cooperage at Southdown Quay, Southdown Quay
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 Cooperage at Southdown Quay, Southdown Quay
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Millbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4376352852
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 July 2023 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SK 45 SW
6/10001
MILLBROOK
Former Cooperage at Southdown Quay
GV
II
Part of cooperage at the King's Brewhouse complex, now two cottages. Early C18. Local stone rubble with Plymouth stone ashlar to quoins and dressings; slate-hung to left-hand gable; gabled slate roof; brick rear lateral stacks. Rectangular plan. Two storeys; four-window front with segmental brick arches over mid C20 first-floor windows and segmental stone arches over similar ground-floor windows. Segmental arch over former loading bay to centre, infilled in mid C19 with segmental brick arch over C20 door set in C18 heavy pegged frame.
Interior includes cased beams of heavy scantling to ground floor.
Historical Note: This originally formed part of a great brewhouse complex which was built in the early 18th century to supply ships of the line: it declined in use after the building in the early 19th century of John Rennie's victualling yard to the south of the Royal Naval Dockyards at Plymouth. This is the surviving part of a building shown on a 1794 plan of the site as the "North Cooperage Yard", and was probably truncated in the mid 19th century. The stacks were originally used to carry away the smoke generated by small fires used to heat up the staves prior to them being bent. Cooperages were usually single-storey structures; the upper storey here was probably used for the storage of timber, staves and hoops.
Listing NGR: SX4376352852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351274
- 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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