MORICE GATE, TWO GATEHOUSES (MO 39 AND 65) AND ATTACHED DOCKYARD WALLS

MORICE GATE, TWO GATEHOUSES (MO 39 AND 65) AND ATTACHED DOCKYARD WALLS, MORICE YARD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378549
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: MORICE GATE, TWO GATEHOUSES (MO 39 AND 65) AND ATTACHED DOCKYARD WALLS
Statutory Address:: MORICE GATE, TWO GATEHOUSES (MO 39 AND 65) AND ATTACHED DOCKYARD WALLS, MORICE YARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378549
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: MORICE GATE, TWO GATEHOUSES (MO 39 AND 65) AND ATTACHED DOCKYARD WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: MORICE GATE, TWO GATEHOUSES (MO 39 AND 65) AND ATTACHED DOCKYARD WALLS, MORICE YARD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MORICE GATE, TWO GATEHOUSES (MO 39 AND 65) AND ATTACHED DOCKYARD WALLS, MORICE YARD

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 44966 54893

Details

SX 4454 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport Dockyard 740-1/95/183 Morice Gate, two gatehouses (MO 39 and 65) and attached dockyard walls

GV II*

Gateway, attached dockyard walls, and pair of houses, now guard houses. 1720-1724, by Andrew Jelf, Clerk of Works, to layout by Colonel C Lilly, for the Board of Ordnance. Wall of Dunstone shaly rubble and granite ashlar; stucco gatehouses with lateral and gable stacks and slate roofs. PLAN: pair of single-depth houses flanking gateway. EXTERIOR: 2-storeys, attic and basement; windowless gatehouse road fronts. Gateway has large granite piers capped with iron mortars, and linked by a scrolled overthrow and octagonal lantern, with C20 timber doors. Facades of houses have plinths, round-arched doorways to inner and outer sides, the left-hand pier is blocked; each has a central lateral stack with a raised panel below the eaves. The inner gables have single first floor and paired attic lights, the S gable has an oculus to the attic, and gable stacks. The 2-window returns have segmental-arched ground-floor and flat-headed first-floor sashes, and granite basement lit by a well to the inner side. INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having been altered mid C20. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the dockyard walls, of carefully bedded rubble with square piers and weathered top, extends approx. 300m to the S and W terminating beside the entrance to the South Yard, and approx. 65m to the N extending down to E of the Powder House (qv). HISTORY: the original entrance and perimeter walls to the Yard, a carefully-planned site with the raised Officer's Terrace and the Stores (qv) on the tower level. The walls, with their distinctive construction typical of the Ordnance Board at this time, form an important element enclosing the most complete C18 Ordnance Yard in the country. (Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy: London: 1983: 138-141; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 249-250).

Listing NGR: SX4496654893

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Legacy System number:: 476499
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Coad, J , Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy, (1983), 138-141
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 249-250

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.