Master Ropemakers Office (S 97 and 98)
MASTER ROPEMAKERS OFFICE (S 97 AND 98), SOUTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378518
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Master Ropemakers Office (S 97 and 98)
- Statutory Address:
- MASTER ROPEMAKERS OFFICE (S 97 AND 98), SOUTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378518
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Master Ropemakers Office (S 97 and 98)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MASTER ROPEMAKERS OFFICE (S 97 AND 98), SOUTH YARD
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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:
- MASTER ROPEMAKERS OFFICE (S 97 AND 98), 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 45102 54452
Details
SX 4454 SW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/98/207 Master Ropemaker's Office (S 97
and 98)
GV II
Master Ropemaker's office; later engine house, school, now disused. c1816, extended c1868. Plymouth limestone, 1816 building is of rubble, 1868 is of squared and coursed stone, with ashlar dressings, cast-iron columns and slate roof. Single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storey; 3:3-window range. Parapeted range with cornice, the earlier S section has round-arched first-floor and flat-arched second floor windows with 3/3-pane sashes, with similar openings to pedimented right-hand return, over outer segmental-arched doorways, and a rear early C19 external stair with c1939 cover; a right-hand bay projects on tall iron Tuscan columns to an entablature, and stone top section with a flat-arched second-floor window and a segmental-arched former doorway in the return. Left-hand section has similar openings, 2 on the first floor. 1868 NE truncated chimney has a cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: 1816 double-height office erected at the same time as Holl's rebuilding of the ropery; later extended and converted to machine room for rope-making machinery with an underground drive shaft, with bridge from the front projecting bay to the rope walk. The upper dining room was used as a school after 1945. Part of the important rope making complex with the Spinning House, Hemp House and other Ropeyard buildings ( qv).
(Sources: le Page A: Report -GHK Partnership: 1992: 33; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989: 651).
Listing NGR: SX4510254452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476468
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Devon North, (1952), 651
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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