Royal Marine Barracks the Globe Theatre
ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS THE GLOBE THEATRE, DURNFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244645
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Marine Barracks the Globe Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS THE GLOBE THEATRE, DURNFORD STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244645
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Marine Barracks the Globe Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS THE GLOBE THEATRE, DURNFORD STREET
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:
- ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS THE GLOBE THEATRE, 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 46477 54081
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654SW DURNFORD STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/60/784 (East side) 01/05/75 Royal Marine Barracks: The Globe Theatre
GV II
Racquet court, later extended and converted to theatre on Marines barracks. c1830, remodelled after 1860, restored c1990. MATERIALS: squared, snecked Plymouth limestone below impost level at entrance front, otherwise Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings; low-pitched tiled roof, the right-hand gable end completely glazed with 2 mullions and vertical glazing bars between. EXTERIOR: former racquet court a tall single storey; symmetrical 2-window entrance front. Blind low 3-light mullioned windows above impost string, small segmental-arched basement windows to light under stage below. Tall central round-arched stage doorway with keyblock and moulded gabled hood; rusticated jambs; large pair of ledged doors opening at 2 levels. Rear wall has a central stone shallow bay up to beneath the eaves to accommodate the auditorium, with blind lunettes each side. INTERIOR: has original features to circular auditorium, for seating approximately 250, including: shallow domed ceiling with dentilled cornice supported on cast-iron columns; fluted pilastered proscenium with panelled sides and mock doors with pediments. The auditorium dome is of wooden construction under a hipped roof with cast-iron trusses. HISTORY: ball courts were a standard feature of early barracks, but this is probably the earliest surviving example, and unique as a conversion to a theatre. Stonehouse is the earliest non-garrison barracks in England, and a complete complex of considerable architectural and historic significance. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 655).
Listing NGR: SX4647754081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473371
- 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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