MELVILLE, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD

MELVILLE, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, STONEHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1378531
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: MELVILLE, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD
Statutory Address:: MELVILLE, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, STONEHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1378531
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: MELVILLE, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD
Statutory Address 1:: MELVILLE, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, STONEHOUSE

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Statutory Address:: MELVILLE, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, STONEHOUSE

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:: SX4612253545

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SX 4653 NW 740-1/65/736

PLYMOUTH CREMYLL STREET, Stonehouse Melville, Royal William Victualling Yard

GV I

Stores and offices. 1828-32, by Sir J Rennie Jnr, for the Victualling Board, ironwork by Horsley Ironworks Company. Limestone ashlar with granite dressings and ashlar, granite ridge stacks, -iron trusses-and slate and concrete tile hipped mansard roofs, some copper sheet and copper clock dome, and internal cast-iron columns to timber floors. Late Georgian style. PLAN: quadrangular plan of single-depth store ranges with central gateway and flanking offices. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 19-window range front and sides. A long symmetrical front with plainer sides has plinth, banded rustication to the ground floor up to plat band, first-floor string, cornice and parapet; segmental-arched ground-floor windows, flat-headed first-floor and square-headed second-floor windows with plain surrounds; small-paned metal tilting casements, some with original stays, 8/8-paned sashes to the former offices; C20 replacements. The front elevation has an ashlar 3-bay central archway with a full-height round archway flanked by 1-window bays with banded pilasters and double 6-panel doors, beneath an ashlar base to a square tower with clocks and a banded bell tower with louvred round-arched openings, cornice and a copper dome with weather vane. 3-window end sections set forward, the middle hoist bays defined by banded pilaster strips, with iron-framed double half-glazed doors to each floor; the far right plat band inscribed "MELVILLE". Side ranges have 4-window end sections set forward, that to the SW side obscured by Drum Alley, the rear elevation has a central hoist bay, and a good cast-iron lamp bracket with honeysuckle motif to the SE corner. The archway is in 3 sections divided by banded pilasters with doors and windows with plain surround. The inside of the quadrangle is similar, the rear range with a central hoist bay defined by pilasters with an iron swing hoist to the second floor, and 2 hoist bays to the sides with ground-floor doorways. INTERIOR: the double-depth front offices to the N of the archway have axial passages divided by round arches with panelled reveals, cornices, panelled dados, doors and shutters, and marble fireplaces with corner roundels, and a good cantilevered stone winder stair with curtail and iron balusters; a plainer stair to the S side of the archway, and there are stairs in the corners of the rear range and in the NE range. The stores have 2 rows of cast-iron columns with flanged pillows to timber beams; the roofs are the same design as those in Clarence and the Old Cooperage (qv), with wrought-iron king and queen ties, cast-iron L-section struts, I-section principal rafters, and purlins with parabolic bottom flanges, wedged and bolted together. The hip detail to the mansard, and the trusses over the archway, are particularly complex. HISTORY: built as a general store for clothing and food, and as offices for the Officers and clerks of the Yard. The roof is a rare example of fire-proof construction comparable with contemporary fire-proof textile mills. Little altered since completion, Melville is the centrepiece of the very fine composed seaward front to Royal William. 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: 12-24; 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: SX4612253545

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Sources

Books and journals
The Royal William Victualling Yard, (1994), 12-24
Coad, J , The Mariners Mirror The Historic Architecture of HM Naval Base Devonport 1689-1850, (1983), 382-390
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 282-290

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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.