PERIMETER WALL AND ATTACHED GUARD HOUSE, MAGAZINE, STABLES, GARAGE AND CANTEEN

PERIMETER WALL AND ATTACHED GUARD HOUSE, MAGAZINE, STABLES, GARAGE AND CANTEEN, FOULSTON AVENUE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322030
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: PERIMETER WALL AND ATTACHED GUARD HOUSE, MAGAZINE, STABLES, GARAGE AND CANTEEN
Statutory Address:: PERIMETER WALL AND ATTACHED GUARD HOUSE, MAGAZINE, STABLES, GARAGE AND CANTEEN, FOULSTON AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322030
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Apr-2009
List Entry Name:: PERIMETER WALL AND ATTACHED GUARD HOUSE, MAGAZINE, STABLES, GARAGE AND CANTEEN
Statutory Address 1:: PERIMETER WALL AND ATTACHED GUARD HOUSE, MAGAZINE, STABLES, GARAGE AND CANTEEN, FOULSTON AVENUE

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:: PERIMETER WALL AND ATTACHED GUARD HOUSE, MAGAZINE, STABLES, GARAGE AND CANTEEN, FOULSTON AVENUE

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 43801 57838

Details

740-1/4/619 FOULSTON AVENUE 09-NOV-98 ST BUDEAUX (South side) Perimeter wall and attached guard hous e, magazine, stables, garage and canteen (Formerly listed as: FOULSTON AVENUE ST BUDEAUX ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND WALLS TO BULL POI NT BARRACKS (BARRACKS NOT INCLUDED))

GV II Perimeter wall, guard house, magazine, stables and canteen at infantry barracks, now training centre. 1855-8. Plymouth limestone ashlar and rubble with granite dressings, English bond red brick with stone plinths, with hipped slate roofs.

PLAN: Square outline with E guard house, S magazine flanked by stables and garages both sides. Canteen to SW, forage store to NE and magazine to NW.

EXTERIOR: Tall stone perimeter wall, ashlar to the E entrance front and rubble to the 3 sides, with capped granite piers and coping, projecting at corners to form bastions covering alternate sides, with rifle slits. Entrance has a wide pediment containing a shield over a round-arched gateway with rusticated dressings and double metal doors, and smaller segmental-arched doorways each side. Guard house: single storey; 4-window range has deep overhanging roof to front supported on 6 slim cast-iron columns, rubbed brick heads to outer doorways and to horned 6/6-pane sashes between; the left-hand part obscured by mid-C20 extension. The wall to the left ramps down with a moulded coping to enclose a small exercise yard, with a doorway. Magazine: small brick magazine with end gables, behind a tall ashlar wall with a central doorway with raised surround and corner piers. Stables and garages each side partly open-fronted with timber columns, double garage doors to the left and metal-framed windows to the right. Canteen: 2 storey; 5-window range. Symmetrical front with rubbed brick flat-arches to doorway with 4-pane overlight and double doors, and to horned 6/6-pane sashes. NE corner contains a 2 storey; 1-window store, probably for forage, with a wide doorway, and small 12-pane ground-floor window and upper taking-in door in the end gable. NW corner contains a 2 storey; 1-window store, probably formerly a magazine, with steps up to an upper doorway flanked by blind slits, and an altered doorway and first-floor casement window in the end gable.

HISTORY: the barracks was built for the guard of the nearby Bull Point ordnance yard, which was erected for the Ordnance Board between 1851 and 1855, and to protect the northern approaches of Devonport Dockyard from invasion. This is a very complete and unaltered example of a defensible barracks of the type built in the 1840s and 50s, and is the only barracks built around Devonport for the defence of the Dockyard which still remains. The closest example of such a defensible barracks is located close to the dockyard at Pembroke in Wales, the 'police barracks' in the industrial north of England having two survivals (Fulwood Barracks, Preston, and Hillsborough Barracks, Sheffield) which also retain bastioned but less defensible walls.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 473448
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.