Officers House Number 1 and Attached Walls and Railings, Royal William Victualling Yard
OFFICERS HOUSE NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378538
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Officers House Number 1 and Attached Walls and Railings, Royal William Victualling Yard
- Statutory Address:
- OFFICERS HOUSE NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378538
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Officers House Number 1 and Attached Walls and Railings, Royal William Victualling Yard
- Statutory Address 1:
- OFFICERS HOUSE NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 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:
- OFFICERS HOUSE NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 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:
- SX 46281 53548
Details
SX 4653 NW
740-1/65/740
PLYMOUTH
CREMYLL STREET, Stonehouse
Officer's House No.1, attached walls & railings, Royal William Victualling Yard
GV II*
Officer's house and attached wall, railings and ancillary buildings, now offices. c1830-32, by Sir John Rennie Jnr, for the Victualling Board. Granite ashlar with central lateral stacks each end and a slate hipped mansard roof; rubble garden walls. Late Georgian style.
PLAN: double-depth plan with central stair.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, basement and attic; 5-window range. All four sides have banded ground floor to a plat band, cornice and parapet, with basement windows set in shallow recesses, flat-headed hornless 6/6-pane sashes, with segmental-arched 3/6-pane basement sashes. NW entrance side has windowless ground floor with steps up to a central segmental-arched doorway with double doors each with 5 sunken panels and 5-pane overlight, and a 6/6-pane first-floor sash above. 5-window garden front has steps and a basement area bridge to a central half-glazed door with overlight. SE return has a single first-floor window to the rear. Roof has flat-headed lead-clad dormers with 8/8-pane sashes, 2 to front and rear and 1 to the SE end.
INTERIOR: a central dogleg stair rises to the rear with curtail and stick balusters; cornices, panelled doors and shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: good attached cast-iron railings with curved bars, finials and Greek Revival details enclose the side and rear basement areas. A tall rubble wall extends approx. 30m to the SE enclosing the rear garden, and connecting to former stables, with ashlar pilaster strips and segmental-arched doors, and at the SE end carriage store with a round-arched entrance; the wall continues to the S perimeter of the site. A rear garden wall connects with the Yard perimeter wall (qv), and separates the garden from that of Officer's House No.2 (qv).
HISTORY: the navy traditionally provided accommodation for senior officers at its yards. By 1890 the residence of the Superintendent of the Stores. A pair with No.2 (qv), graded for its significance as part of Rennie's layout, in 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: 59).
Listing NGR: SX4628153548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476488
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Royal William Victualling Yard, (1994), 59
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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