Master Ropemakers House (S 103) And Attached Railings and Garden Wall Turncocks House
MASTER ROPEMAKERS HOUSE (S 103) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN WALL, SOUTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378521
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Master Ropemakers House (S 103) And Attached Railings and Garden Wall Turncocks House
- Statutory Address:
- MASTER ROPEMAKERS HOUSE (S 103) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN WALL, SOUTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378521
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Master Ropemakers House (S 103) And Attached Railings and Garden Wall Turncocks House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MASTER ROPEMAKERS HOUSE (S 103) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN WALL, SOUTH YARD
- Statutory Address 2:
- TURNCOCKS HOUSE, 2, EAST AVENUE
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:
- MASTER ROPEMAKERS HOUSE (S 103) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN WALL, SOUTH YARD
- Statutory Address:
- TURNCOCKS HOUSE, 2, EAST AVENUE
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 45163 54347
Details
SX 4554 SW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/98/223 Master Ropemaker's House
(S 103) and attached railings
and garden wall
GV II
Includes: Turncock's House, No.2 EAST AVENUE, Devonport Dockyard.
House; later school, now office. 1772-3. Coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings, lateral stacks to E and S, and hipped slate roof.
PLAN: single-depth N office, with double-depth rooms to S, and S attached service wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and cellar; windowless entrance front and 3-window N range. A tall house with a ground-floor plat band, rusticated quoins, flat cornice and parapet, with flat surrounds to openings. Main W front windowless apart from 2 small inserted second-floor windows, and right-hand doorway covered by a mid C20 porch. N side has 616-pane sashes, and 316-pane second-floor sashes, and a large dormer. E side to dock wall has 2 windows towards the S. S side has 1 316-pane sash to the left, and a 2-storey; 1-window lower service range with a 418-pane ground-floor sash. Attached to the S is a small former brewhouse or laundry with a lateral stack.
INTERIOR: altered mid C20, original features include a dogleg stair from a small entrance lobby with ramped moulded rail; dado and 6-panel doors, boxed cornices.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached iron railings with urn finials and column newels, and 2 corner cannon bollards to the doorway, and matching railings on a dwarf wall extend approx. 30m to the NW; garden wall encloses garden to the S and is attached to the Dockyard wall (qv).
HISTORY: part of the important ropemaking complex with the Spinning House, Hemp House and other Ropeyard buildings (qv).
(Sources: The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989: 652; Coad j: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 53).
SX 4554 SW PLYMOUTH EAST AVENUE, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/98/223 No.2, Turncock's House
GV II
See under: Master Ropemarker's House (S 103) and attached railings and garden wall, SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard. -
Listing NGR: SX4516354347
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476471
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 53
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952)
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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