Blockhouse

BLOCKHOUSE, ADMIRALTY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1129960
Date first listed:
09-Nov-1998
Statutory Address:
BLOCKHOUSE, ADMIRALTY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1129960
Date first listed:
09-Nov-1998
Statutory Address 1:
BLOCKHOUSE, ADMIRALTY ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
BLOCKHOUSE, ADMIRALTY 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:
SX 45946 53346

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4453 ADMIRALTY ROAD 740-1/64/715 (North side (off)) Stonehouse, Devil's Point Blockhouse

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Blockhouse. Probably 1509-1539. Rubble with granite dressings. Irregular (stretched) octagonal plan with doorway to landward side and gunports to seaward side (the longer sides). Chamfered granite doorway spanned by shallow 2-centred arch; pair of square gunports with rebates for shutters. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of a series of coastal defences at Plymouth probably built in the reign of Henry VIII.

Listing NGR: SX4594653346

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473162
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