Royal Marine Barracks East Barrack Block and Forecourt Railings
ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS EAST BARRACK BLOCK AND FORECOURT RAILINGS, DURNFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117106
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Marine Barracks East Barrack Block and Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS EAST BARRACK BLOCK AND FORECOURT RAILINGS, DURNFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117106
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Marine Barracks East Barrack Block and Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS EAST BARRACK BLOCK AND FORECOURT RAILINGS, DURNFORD STREET
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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 MARINE BARRACKS EAST BARRACK BLOCK AND FORECOURT RAILINGS, DURNFORD 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:
- SX 46450 54068
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654SW DURNFORD STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/60/786 (East side) 01/05/75 Royal Marine Barracks: East Barrack Block and forecourt railings
GV II*
Formerly known as: N and E Blocks, Officers Mess, Dining Hall & Single Officer's Accom. DURNFORD STREET Stonehouse, R M Barracks. Barrack block at Marines barracks. 1781-83, built for the Ordnance Board by Templer & Parlby, and extended 1818 and c1860; rebuilt internally c1965. MATERIALS: Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings; dry slate roofs with hipped ends and stone coping over cross walls (formerly with stone axial stacks). PLAN: very long rectangular single-depth plan plus taller square stair tower to rear left behind the northward extension of 12 bays. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement; 12:3:10:5:10:3-bay range which was symmetrical prior to 1860 12-bay extension to the N. Original 5-bay pedimented central block and original 3-bay end blocks broken forward and with rusticated quoins; band above ground floor. Many early C19 hornless sashes with glazing bars, otherwise horned copies, all within plain stone architraves. Original doorway to centre of pedimented block, with blocked jambs and cornice, the other doorways central to each 5-window range within the 10-window ranges, doorways left and right of the 3-window ranges and approximately central to the extension on the left; overlights and planked doors. The doorways to the N extension have segmental-arched heads. A segmental-arched tunnel beneath the entrance cut through early C19. Rear of main range plain, N extension has 4 shallow projecting ablution towers to rear of transverse stairs, with rusticated quoins. INTERIOR: completely rebuilt c1965. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: late C19 latticed and scrolled wrought-iron railings surrounding forecourt and flanking steps. HISTORY: this is one of the earliest surviving barracks for a large unit of men in England. It is part of the only remaining barracks built for the three divisions of the Royal Marines after their formation in 1755. Originally contained 12 single-depth rooms separated by transverse stairs. The passage between the former officers' mess at the S end was built over in 1818. Stonehouse is the oldest and most important barracks
in England not forming part of a fortification, a rare example of C18 planning, and a complex of great historic value. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 655).
Listing NGR: SX4645054068
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473362
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 655
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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