Rear Retaining Wall Extending Approximately 400 Metres, Royal William Victualling Yard
REAR RETAINING WALL EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378541
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Rear Retaining Wall Extending Approximately 400 Metres, Royal William Victualling Yard
- Statutory Address:
- REAR RETAINING WALL EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378541
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Rear Retaining Wall Extending Approximately 400 Metres, Royal William Victualling Yard
- Statutory Address 1:
- REAR RETAINING WALL EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES, 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:
- REAR RETAINING WALL EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES, 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:
- SX4618053488
Details
SX 4653
740-1/66/750
PLYMOUTH
CREMYLL STREET, Stonehouse
Rear retaining wall extending approx. 400m, Royal William Victualling Yard
GV II*
Retaining wall, mason's yard, coal stores and archway. c1827-1831, by Sir John Rennie Jnr, for the Victualling Board. Limestone rubble and ashlar dressings, granite ashlar arch. Wall extends approx. 400 metres E from the SW corner of the site returning to meet the Dockyard wall ( qv), forming the perimeter of site, with coal stores and archway set in the base.
EXTERIOR: a high, battered retaining wall with the top 3 metre section forming the S perimeter wall, built from stone excavated from the site, has lacing courses and a plain coping. Includes 4 round-arched coal store entrances set within matching relieving arches, with double doors. Behind the Old Cooperage, a rubble dogleg wall extends out from the retaining wall and ramps down to an ashlar pier, formerly enclosing the mason's yard.
INTERIOR: of coal stores not inspected.
HISTORY: the wall forms the impressive backdrop to the victualling buildings, and indicates the impressive scale of the undertaking. 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: 75).
Listing NGR: SX4618053488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476491
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Royal William Victualling Yard, (1994), 75
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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