Heavy Lifting Store (SO 33)
HEAVY LIFTING STORE (SO 33), SOUTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378507
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Heavy Lifting Store (SO 33)
- Statutory Address:
- HEAVY LIFTING STORE (SO 33), SOUTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378507
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Heavy Lifting Store (SO 33)
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEAVY LIFTING STORE (SO 33), 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:
- HEAVY LIFTING STORE (SO 33), 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 44907 54597
Details
SX 4454 NE PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/95/205 Heavy Lifting Store (SO 33)
GV II
Workshop, now store. c1840. Coursed Dunstone rubble with ground-floor granite and first-floor granite and limestone dressings; gabled corrugated iron roof. Rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 2-window front and 6-window sides. Double-gabled front has a slightly battered ground-floor, with first-floor keyed flat arches to wide panelled and plank hoist doors, above tall keyed segmental brick arched doorways with C20 double doors. A rounded granite corbel below the right-hand upper opening. 5-window returns have segmental brick arches over horned 8/8-pane (left) and horned 313-pane (right) sashes with segmental-arched blocked lunettes over plat bands. Brick segmental arch over plank double doors to rear of left return. INTERIOR: noted as having heavy timber posts and beams and timber roof.
HISTORY: first shown on a map of the yard in 1849 and marked house carpenter's shop. The first floor is possibly later. A complete example of a small dockyard building containing interesting structural details, possibly related to its function.
(Source: Williams Captain M RE: Map of Devonport Dockyard: 1849: ADM 140/170).
Listing NGR: SX4490754597
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476457
- 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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