Perimeter Wall Enclosing Noth Corner of South Yard

PERIMETER WALL ENCLOSING NOTH CORNER OF SOUTH YARD, SOUTH YARD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1378511
Date first listed:
13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Perimeter Wall Enclosing Noth Corner of South Yard
Statutory Address:
PERIMETER WALL ENCLOSING NOTH CORNER OF SOUTH YARD, SOUTH YARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1378511
Date first listed:
13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Perimeter Wall Enclosing Noth Corner of South Yard
Statutory Address 1:
PERIMETER WALL ENCLOSING NOTH CORNER OF SOUTH YARD, SOUTH YARD

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PERIMETER WALL ENCLOSING NOTH CORNER OF SOUTH YARD, 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 45057 54628

Details

SX 4554 NW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard

740-1/96/886 Perimeter wall enclosing N
corner of South Yard

GV II


Perimeter wall. Late C18. Limestone rubble. Tall wall with interval buttress pilasters extends approx. 200m NE from the entrance to Morice Yard, returning for approx. 110m to the SE and broken by the former entrance to the yard which has wickets in ashlar sections with arched heads.
Formed the perimeter wall of the yard when it was extended in the late C18, and an important component in the security of the dockyard. Included as marking the extent of the late C18 dockyard.


Listing NGR: SX4505754628

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
476461
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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