Number 2 Store and Former Furbishers Shop (MO 68)
NUMBER 2 STORE AND FORMER FURBISHERS SHOP (MO 68), MORICE YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378550
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2 Store and Former Furbishers Shop (MO 68)
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 2 STORE AND FORMER FURBISHERS SHOP (MO 68), MORICE YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378550
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2 Store and Former Furbishers Shop (MO 68)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 2 STORE AND FORMER FURBISHERS SHOP (MO 68), MORICE YARD
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.
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:
- NUMBER 2 STORE AND FORMER FURBISHERS SHOP (MO 68), 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 44850 54781
Details
SX 4454 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/95/184
No.2 Store and former Furbisher's
Shop (MO 68)
GV II*
Carriage store and furbisher's shop, disused. c1776, probably by Major Dixon. Dunstone brown .rubble with- SW lateral stack; W block of squared limestone with limestone dressings to W block with rear stack, and slate hipped roofs. Open 4-cell plan store with W furbisher's shop a single-depth 2-cell plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7-window range with 3-window Wend, and lower 2-storey 5-window range furbisher's shop. Plinth and string, with flat arches to 4 ground-floor openings, 3 doorways at the centre and right-hand end, the main central entrance has C18 double doors, and horned 6/6-pane sashes, C19 metal casements to first floor Wend. Furbisher's shop is double fronted with rusticated quoins, plat band, raised surrounds to openings, with a 4-panel door and 6/6-pane sashes; blind gable and rear. Good dated cast-iron hopper.
INTERIOR: store has a remarkably complete interior lined with boarding, divided into four by timber partitions with posts supporting transverse floor beams, flagged floor, an original central transverse dogleg stair to the back with uncut string and heavy stick balusters, and king and queen post roof. Furbisher's shop altered inside with a later left-hand stair, and original door surround to right-hand room.
HISTORY: the Yard was laid out in 1720 by Colonel Lilly for the Board of Ordnance. Part of the late C18 expansion of the yard, the store is reported to have had wooden tramways and wall cranes; the furbisher's shop is a pair with the No.12 store ( qv). A notably unaltered example of a late C18 small naval store in the context of warehouse buildings of this period, within the best surviving C18 naval ordnance yard in the country.
(Source: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 255-256).
Listing NGR: SX4485054781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 255-256
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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