Royal Marine Barracks the Longroom
ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS THE LONGROOM, DURNFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1244646
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Marine Barracks the Longroom
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS THE LONGROOM, DURNFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1244646
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Marine Barracks the Longroom
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS THE LONGROOM, 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 LONGROOM, 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 46516 53804
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4653 DURNFORD STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/66/785 (East side) 01/05/75 Royal Marine Barracks: The Longroom
GV II*
Assembly rooms, then mess, later infirmary, school, now gymnasium. 1760, officer's mess from 1805, school from 1818; extended slightly early C19. MATERIALS: red brick laid to Flemish bond with rusticated stone quoins; dry slate hipped roofs behind brick parapets with moulded stone cornices; brick stack towards left. Mid Georgian style. PLAN: rectangular plan with double-depth rear section; entrance hall to centre at either end. EXTERIOR: main block is 2 storeys over basement and 3-window range with mid-floor string; rear block is 3 storeys over basement and under same parapet level; 5:5-window range, the left-hand 2 bays of rear block a later extension. Original window openings have gauged brick arches over 6/6-pane sashes, later openings with segmental arches over similar sashes. Original symmetrical 3-window entrance front to right-hand return with moulded architraves to ground-floor window openings and central distyle Ionic pedimented porch with dentilled cornices and pulvinated frieze; round-arched doorway with fanlight. Rear end rendered with a C19 3-window entrance front including a central porch with round-arched doorway and blind niches to the sides, and windows altered mid C20. INTERIOR: has long room on each floor to main block with a lateral dogleg stair to the front; central axial early C19 open-well staircase in later part with stick balusters, ramped rails and turned newels; original joists to white-washed cellar. HISTORY: bought from the Corporation in 1805 for use as an officer's mess, but used as a school for children of NCOs when the officers moved to the rebuilt officer's mess (qv) in 1818. The rear was used as an infirmary from c1859, when the nearby surgeon's house was erected. A markedly similar composition to the 1761 Guildhall at Poole, Dorset. Stonehouse barracks was built between 1781-1783. Included for historic and architectural interest with the main part of the barracks complex, which is the oldest and most important group of barracks in England not forming part of a fortification. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 655).
Listing NGR: SX4651653804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473372
- 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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