Steps Dwarf Walls Lamps and Retaining Wall to Gardens Fronting Officers Terrace
STEPS DWARF WALLS LAMPS AND RETAINING WALL TO GARDENS FRONTING OFFICERS TERRACE, MORICE YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378554
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Steps Dwarf Walls Lamps and Retaining Wall to Gardens Fronting Officers Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- STEPS DWARF WALLS LAMPS AND RETAINING WALL TO GARDENS FRONTING OFFICERS TERRACE, MORICE YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378554
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Steps Dwarf Walls Lamps and Retaining Wall to Gardens Fronting Officers Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEPS DWARF WALLS LAMPS AND RETAINING WALL TO GARDENS FRONTING OFFICERS TERRACE, MORICE YARD
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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:
- STEPS DWARF WALLS LAMPS AND RETAINING WALL TO GARDENS FRONTING OFFICERS TERRACE, 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 44882 54834
Details
SX 4454 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/95/192
Steps, dwarf walls, lamps
and retaining wall to gardens
fronting Officers' Terrace
GV II*
Retaining wall, steps and dwarf wall with 4 lamps. 1722, laid out by Col. Lilly, for the Board of Ordnance, built by Andrew Cowley, of London. Rubble and granite with iron railings and lamps. A symmetrical plan of steps with central path to wall fronting Officer's Terrace (qv). Partly cut back into solid rock by the excavation of the lower part of the Yard, forming two opposing flights of steps with iron railings. At the top, a granite path formerly with iron railings leads to the low wall fronting the Officers' Terrace, with cannon balls to the top of a low flight of stairs, and 4 gas lamps, 2 with open cast-iron latticework standards and lamps with gilded crown finials and two with moulded cast-iron shafts.
HISTORY: connected the lower Gun Wharf to the upper level, and formed the front to the fine Officers' Terrace. The dwarf walls and lamps are part of the formal layout of the officers' level, while the steps, cut out of the dressed cliff to the rear of the Gun Wharf, are illustrative of the extent of the works carried out in building what is the most complete (18 naval ordnance yard in the country.
(Source: Coad j: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 248-253).
Listing NGR: SX4488254834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 248-253
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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