White Yarn House (S 135)
WHITE YARN HOUSE (S 135), SOUTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378503
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- White Yarn House (S 135)
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE YARN HOUSE (S 135), SOUTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378503
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- White Yarn House (S 135)
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE YARN HOUSE (S 135), SOUTH YARD
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:
- WHITE YARN HOUSE (S 135), SOUTH YARD
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 45185 54296
Details
SX 4554 SW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/98/224 White Yarn House (5 135)
GV II*
White yarn house. 1763. Limestone rubble and dressings with slate roof. Rectangular open plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Rusticated quoins, plat band, flat cornice and parapet, coped end gables, with flat, eared surrounds to openings. The E side has a central doorway and metal door, and tall N window, blind ground-floor and three first-floor openings under the plat band; the S side has two small openings between the first-floor windows.
INTERIOR: contains a king post roof. HISTORY: yarn from the Spinning House (qv) was stored here and then passed to the Tarring House (qv), where it was coated with tar. With the Tarring and Wheel House and Tarred Yarn House (qv), this is part of the most complete surviving yarn and tarring complex in a Naval rope yard, and an early development of process flow techniques.
(Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy: London: 1983: 71; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 199-203).
Listing NGR: SX4518554296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476453
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 199-203
Coad, J, Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy, (1983), 71
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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