Duttons Cafe (Former Artillery Store/magazine)
DUTTONS CAFE (FORMER ARTILLERY STORE/MAGAZINE), MADEIRA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246341
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Duttons Cafe (Former Artillery Store/magazine)
- Statutory Address:
- DUTTONS CAFE (FORMER ARTILLERY STORE/MAGAZINE), MADEIRA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246341
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Duttons Cafe (Former Artillery Store/magazine)
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUTTONS CAFE (FORMER ARTILLERY STORE/MAGAZINE), MADEIRA ROAD
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:
- DUTTONS CAFE (FORMER ARTILLERY STORE/MAGAZINE), MADEIRA 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 48306 53685
Details
SX 4830 5368 PLYMOUTH MADEIRA ROAD
Dutton's Cafe
(Former Artillery Store/Magazine)
24.4.01
GV II
Magazine and armoury with guard house, now cafe. 1847, by Colonel J. Oldfield, the Western District's Commanding Royal Engineer. Coursed and dressed stone with flat bombproof roof. Rectangular plan. Single-storey S elevation has ashlar lintels over paired entrance to centre, with two late C20 doors, and former entrance, now window, on right. Rifle slit to left. Plat band beneath parapet, extending around whole building. Rifle slits to first floor of two-storey N elevation, which has two late C19 inserted window openings and doorway to ground floor magazine. Interior not inspected.
HISTORY: Built in 1847 as a magazine and armoury to the designs of Colonel J. Oldfield, the Western District's Commanding Royal Engineer, this building forms an integral part of the scheduled outer defences around the late C17 Citadel, which were subject to a continuous programme of modernisation in order to keep abreast of the major developments in ordnance. The defences of the Plymouth area form the most remarkable grouping in Britain where the development of coastal defence from the C16 can be appreciated. The building's function changed after the construction of Madeira Road in the late C19, when minor alterations - which comprised the insertion of windows - left the mid C19 building substantially intact and standing in clear relationship to both the Citadel and the listed harbour walls below.
(Public Record Office, WO 44/314)
Listing NGR: SX4830653685
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487332
- 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.
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