Number 12 the Painted Canvas Store (MO 46)
NUMBER 12 THE PAINTED CANVAS STORE (MO 46), MORICE YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378552
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 12 the Painted Canvas Store (MO 46)
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 12 THE PAINTED CANVAS STORE (MO 46), MORICE YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378552
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 12 the Painted Canvas Store (MO 46)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 12 THE PAINTED CANVAS STORE (MO 46), 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 12 THE PAINTED CANVAS STORE (MO 46), 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 44870 54880
Details
SX 4454 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/95/188
No.12 The Painted Canvas
Store (MO 46)
GV II*
House, now store. Dated 1777 on hopper, altered mid C20. Limestone ashlar with rubble sides and rear and corrugated sheet roof. Single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Double-fronted with rusticated quoins, plat band and raised surrounds to a heavy cross-boarded door and horned first-floor 2/2-pane and ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes. Good lead hopper head to left of the entrance. Windowless sides and rear without dressings.
INTERIOR: fittings and roof altered mid C20.
HISTORY: one of a pair of matching houses with the house of the former Furbisher's Shop attached to Store No.2 (qv). Part of the expansion of the yard in the 1770s, and following the formal plan established in the 1720s by Colonel Lilly. Part of the best surviving C18 naval ordnance yard in the country.
(Source: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 248-254).
Listing NGR: SX4487054880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 248-254
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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