North Gate and Attached Dockyard Walls
NORTH GATE AND ATTACHED DOCKYARD WALLS, MORICE YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378556
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- North Gate and Attached Dockyard Walls
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH GATE AND ATTACHED DOCKYARD WALLS, MORICE YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378556
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- North Gate and Attached Dockyard Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH GATE AND ATTACHED DOCKYARD WALLS, 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:
- NORTH GATE 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 45113 55201
Details
SX 4455 SW PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/94/191
North Gate and attached
dockyard walls
GV II
Gateway and attached dock walls. 1870s. Limestone ashlar gateway, with rubble and ashlar walls. Gateway has a pair of massive, rusticated square piers with round-arch doorways with VR in wrought-iron open fanlights, set in rectangular recesses and leading to brick vaulted through passages, a thin string and moulded cap with stepped base to ball finials. C20 timber double doors, beneath a wrought-iron overthrow and hexagonal lamp. Quadrant walls with 5 rifle loops extend forward to plain piers, connected to dock walls with half-round coping, extending approx. 450m to the S and SW to meet the C18 Yard walls attached to the Morice Gate (qv), and approx. 250m to NW and SW to enclose the N end of the Morice Yard.
HISTORY: the Yard was laid out by the Board of Ordnance from 1720, and the C18 Dockyard walls (qv) were extended in the mid C19 expansion of Devonport Dockyard when the North Gate was added. An important element in defining the C19 extent ofwhat is the best surviving C18 naval ordnance yard in the country.
Listing NGR: SX4511355201
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476506
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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