Former Devonport Market House
FORMER DEVONPORT MARKET HOUSE, SOUTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378509
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Devonport Market House
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER DEVONPORT MARKET HOUSE, SOUTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378509
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Devonport Market House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER DEVONPORT MARKET HOUSE, 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:
- FORMER DEVONPORT MARKET HOUSE, 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 45282 54562
Details
SX 4554 NW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD
Devonport Dockyard
740-1/96/210
Former Devonport Market House
(SO 53)
GV II
Market hall, now store. 1852, by St Aubyn. Squared, snecked limestone with granite dressings, cast-iron, and mineral felt roof. Italianate style. Rectangular plan with NW clock tower.
EXTERIOR: externally 2 storeys; 3-bay range. Ground floor has three round-arched doorways, the right and middle ones blocked and the left with double doors, linked by an impost band, a cornice, with 3 upper iron-framed fully-glazed gables containing an arcade of round-arched windows beneath a panelled band and moulded gables with 3:6:3 round-arched lights, and glazing bars. Corner tower set diagonally has a battered rusticated ashlar base with open round-arches and a cornice, tower has rusticated quoins to a cornice which rises over a clock-face each side, and open belfry with keyed round arches and balustrades, modillion cornice and swept leaded roof to a weather vane. Right-hand return stone, 1 :3 upper windows, similar left-hand side has brick ground floor with two round-arched doorways. Rear is altered, a rubble ground-floor with corrugated iron lean-to roof has incomplete sides, beneath a corrugated iron screen and iron gables as the front.
INTERIOR: contains a good cast-iron double Imperial stair to the rear which rises front and back to a landing and then turns to the sides 'to a cast-iron gallery with lattice railings on three sides of the hall, on round columns with palm leaf capitals, and three parallel iron-trussed roofs. HISTORY: particularly notable for the architectural interest of the tower, and the good internal ironwork and glazing.
(Source: The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989: 652).
Listing NGR: SX4528254562
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476459
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Devon North, (1952), 652
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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