ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS SEAGATE HOUSE, BUILDING NUMBER 8

ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS SEAGATE HOUSE, BUILDING NUMBER 8, DURNFORD STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244643
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS SEAGATE HOUSE, BUILDING NUMBER 8
Statutory Address:: ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS SEAGATE HOUSE, BUILDING NUMBER 8, DURNFORD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244643
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS SEAGATE HOUSE, BUILDING NUMBER 8
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS SEAGATE HOUSE, BUILDING NUMBER 8, DURNFORD STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS SEAGATE HOUSE, BUILDING NUMBER 8, 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 46546 53789

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4653 DURNFORD STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/66/774 (East side) 01/05/75 Royal Marine Barracks: Seagate House, Building No.8

GV II

Formerly known as: No 8 (Officers' Quarters House) DURNFORD STREET Stonehouse, R M Barracks. Detached house, now part of Marines barracks. 1850-60. Stuccoed walls; dry slate roof behind coped parapet overmoulded cornice which continues as string under coped gable to front; tall brick lateral stack on left; hip-roofed wing at rear. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2:1-window-range front with gable over left-hand bays and slightly-projecting entrance bay to right. Segmental arches over sashes with glazing bars; round arch to small gable window and round-arched window above entrance. Round-arched doorway with large fanlight above glazed door with margin lights. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. HISTORY: built for the surgeon at a time when the Longroom (qv) was in use as the barracks hospital, and a pair with the Assistant Surgeon's House, now Emma's Cottage (qv). Part of an important and complete barracks complex.

Listing NGR: SX4654653789

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Legacy System number:: 473369
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.