Royal Marine Barracks North Barrack Block and Attached Basement Railings
ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS NORTH BARRACK BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT RAILINGS, DURNFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1244639
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Marine Barracks North Barrack Block and Attached Basement Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS NORTH BARRACK BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT RAILINGS, DURNFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1244639
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Marine Barracks North Barrack Block and Attached Basement Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS NORTH BARRACK BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT RAILINGS, DURNFORD STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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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 NORTH BARRACK BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT 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 46391 54128
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654SW DURNFORD STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/60/787 (East side) 01/05/75 Royal Marine Barracks: North Barrack Block and attached basement railings
GV II*
Formerly known as: N & E Blocks, Officers Mess, Dining Hall & Single Officers Accom. DURNFORD STREET Stonehouse, R M Barracks. Barrack block at Marines barracks. c1860, designed by Colonel G Greene, Director of the Admiralty Works Department; altered late C20. MATERIALS: Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings; dry slate roofs on 2 levels, hipped end on right and coped gable ends to slightly taller later block on the left, all behind a coped rubble parapet over a dressed stone band; 2 truncated stone stacks. PLAN: single-depth plan, the left-hand part slightly broken forward. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement; 17:12-window range. Horned sashes with glazing bars replacing original hornless sashes, all within plain stone architraves; bands above basement and ground floor. Segmental-arched doorways and enclosed stone porch with parapet and side windows, on left. To the rear at the W end is a square stair tower with a pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: not inspected but reported to have been rebuilt internally. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: late C19 latticed and scrolled wrought-iron railings surrounding forecourt and flanking steps up to doorways. HISTORY: built to match the 1783 barrack, after the former N officers' wing was demolished when the barracks was enlarged by Greene in the 1860s, to enclose the C18 parade ground. Originally with single-depth rooms flanking entrance stair halls, with sergeant's mess and library at the W end and men's day room and billiard room at the E. Stonehouse is the earliest and most important barracks in England not forming part of a fortification, a rare example of C18 planning, and a complex of great historical value. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 655).
Listing NGR: SX4639154128
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473365
- 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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