Wall Piers and Steps Approximately 300 Metres Long Parallel With Spinnning House
WALL PIERS AND STEPS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES LONG PARALLEL WITH SPINNNING HOUSE, SOUTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378523
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Wall Piers and Steps Approximately 300 Metres Long Parallel With Spinnning House
- Statutory Address:
- WALL PIERS AND STEPS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES LONG PARALLEL WITH SPINNNING HOUSE, SOUTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378523
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Wall Piers and Steps Approximately 300 Metres Long Parallel With Spinnning House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALL PIERS AND STEPS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES LONG PARALLEL WITH SPINNNING HOUSE, 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.
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:
- WALL PIERS AND STEPS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES LONG PARALLEL WITH SPINNNING 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 45159 54334
Details
SX 4554 SW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/98/234 Wall, piers and steps, approx.
300m long parallel with
Spinning House
GV II
Wall and end piers. 1763-1771. Rubble with ashlar piers. Capped retaining wall to cobbled roadway is ramped up to N square pier, with an archway underneath, and a central path through from the archway in the Tarring and Wheel House (qv).
HISTORY: forms a retaining wall to the roadway to the E side of the Spinning House, and included for group value as part of an outstanding (18 industrial complex.
Listing NGR: SX4515954334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476473
- 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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