Tarred Yarn Store
TARRED YARN STORE, SOUTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378504
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Tarred Yarn Store
- Statutory Address:
- TARRED YARN STORE, SOUTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378504
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Tarred Yarn Store
- Statutory Address 1:
- TARRED YARN STORE, 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:
- TARRED YARN STORE, 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 45217 54200
Details
SX 4554 SW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/98/229 Tarred Yarn Store (S 138)
GV II*
Tarred yarn store. Dated 1769 on hoppers. Limestone rubble and dressings with slate roof.
Rectangular open plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 5-window range. Plinth, plat band and flat cornice and parapet, with eared flat surrounds to the openings, central doorway and blind first-floor windows. S gable has a raised stepped top with square plinths to ball finials at the sides and top, an inserted vehicle entrance and 3 blind oculi. W side has 3 small blind openings between the ground-floor windows; E side has two good dated hoppers inscribed GR.
INTERIOR: contains a king post roof supporting a raised walkway with the rope-winding horizontal capstans that distributed the yarn through the store.
HISTORY: yarn that had been tarred was wound on to bobbins and stored here before being taken to the West Ropehouse (demolished) for laying. With the White Yarn House and Tarring and Wheel Houses (qv) part of the most complete of such tarring and yarn store complexes in a Naval dockyard.
(Sources: The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989: 652; Coad J: Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy: London: 1983: 71- 79; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 199-203).
Listing NGR: SX4521754200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476454
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Devon North, (1952), 652
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), 71-79
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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