Dock Basin Walls and 6 Associated Bollards, Royal William Victualling Yard
DOCK BASIN WALLS AND 6 ASSOCIATED BOLLARDS, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1378529
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Dock Basin Walls and 6 Associated Bollards, Royal William Victualling Yard
- Statutory Address:
- DOCK BASIN WALLS AND 6 ASSOCIATED BOLLARDS, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1378529
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Dock Basin Walls and 6 Associated Bollards, Royal William Victualling Yard
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOCK BASIN WALLS AND 6 ASSOCIATED BOLLARDS, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DOCK BASIN WALLS AND 6 ASSOCIATED BOLLARDS, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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:
- SX4612253626
Details
SX 4653 NW
740-1/65/732
PLYMOUTH
CREMYLL STREET, Stonehouse
Dock basin walls and 6 associated bollards, Royal William Victualling Yard
GV I
Basin walls and bollards. c1826-32, by Sir J Rennie Jnr, for the Victualling Board. Granite ashlar and cast-iron.
PLAN: square basin with curved NW entrance. Banded rustication to dock sides and entrance, with finely detailed flights of steps either side of the opening.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: six square-section cast-iron bollards with concave sides with timber strips, and round top inscribed "FLETCHER AND YOUNG/SOUTHAMPTON/1830", to each corner of the basin and either side of the Swing Bridge (qv).
HISTORY: the Basin was intended to improve access to the Yard for incoming ships, especially during bad weather, and to reduce pilferage. There were formerly cranes along each side. With the Quay Walls each side (qv) it forms the focus, flanked by the Mill and the Brewery and with Melville behind ( qv), of the principal view of the Yard. The Yard is one of the most remarkable and complete early C19 industrial complexes in the country, and a unique English example of Neo-Classical planning of a state manufacturing site.
(Sources: Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants: The Royal William Victualling Yard, Stonehouse: 1994: 50; The Mariner's Mirror: Coad J: Historic Architecture of HM Naval Base Devonport 1689-1850: London: 1983: 382-390; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 282-290).
Listing NGR: SX4612253626
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476479
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Royal William Victualling Yard, (1994), 50
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989)
Coad, J, The Mariners Mirror The Historic Architecture of HM Naval Base Devonport 1689-1850, (1983), 282-290
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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