NUMBER 3 STORE (MO 66)

NUMBER 3 STORE (MO 66), MORICE YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378559
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 3 STORE (MO 66)
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 3 STORE (MO 66), MORICE YARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378559
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 3 STORE (MO 66)
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 3 STORE (MO 66), MORICE YARD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
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

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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.