Swing Bridge, Royal William Victualling Yard
SWING BRIDGE, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378540
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Swing Bridge, Royal William Victualling Yard
- Statutory Address:
- SWING BRIDGE, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378540
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Swing Bridge, Royal William Victualling Yard
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWING BRIDGE, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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.
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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:
- SWING BRIDGE, 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:
- SX4608853631
Details
SX 4653 NW
740-1/65/747
PLYMOUTH
CREMYLL STREET, Stonehouse
Swing bridge, Royal William Victualling Yard
GV II*
Swing bridge. c1833-5 by the Horsley Iron Co.Cast-iron. Matching halves on opposing sides of the entrance to the basin (qv) each consist of 4 braced plates bearing a wooden deck with railings and forming an elliptical arch, rotating on a cogged wheel and turned by handle. "HORSLEY IRON CO/NEAR/BIRMINGHAM" within a wreath of bay leaves and an anchor cast on the sides.
HISTORY: a very similar design to the swing bridge (qv), dated 1838, in the South Yard, Devonport Dockyard, by the same company. Intended by Rennie to improve circulation around the basin and graded for its contextual importance in this part 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: 84).
Listing NGR: SX4608853631
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476490
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Royal William Victualling Yard, (1994), 84
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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