NUMBER 3 STORE (MO 66)
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378559
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 3 STORE (MO 66), MORICE YARD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 3 STORE (MO 66), MORICE YARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 44856 54797
Details
SX 4454 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/95/185
No.3 Store (MO 66)
GV II
Storehouse. 1840-1855, altered mid C20. Squared coursed limestone, granite dressings and hipped slate roof. Open plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 9-window range. Symmetrical sides with a first-floor cill band, a central segmental-arched entrance with C20 doors beneath matching first-floor tripartite window, round-arched ground-floor and flat-arched first-floor windows with 919-pane sashes. Wend has 2 wide round-arched doorways with timber doors and a tripartite fanlight, beneath a single segmental-arched tripartite sash. N side ground-floor windows half bricked up with spiral C19 iron fire escape at the end.
INTERIOR: contains inserted ground floor partitions and stairs, open first floor and ceiled roof. Some old spar timbers used as floor ties.
HISTORY: the Yard was laid out in 1720 by Colonel Lilly for the Board of Ordnance and expanded in the 1770s. One of the last buildings built by the Board of Ordnance, a pair with No.6 Store, Sail Loft (qv), and a late addition forming part of the best surviving (18 naval ordnance yard in the country.
(Source: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 256).
Listing NGR: SX4485654797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476509
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 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.
End of official listing
