NUMBER 5 STORE, COLOUR LOFT (MO 56)
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378560
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 5 STORE, COLOUR LOFT (MO 56), MORICE YARD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 5 STORE, COLOUR LOFT (MO 56), 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 44821 54832
Details
SX 44S4 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/95/187
No.5 Store, Colour Loft (MO 56)
GV II
Store. 1840-50. Limestone ashlar with granite dressings and slate roof, hipped to the Wend. Rectangular 2-cell plan with central through passage with stair.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 7 -window range with 3-window ends. Store has a cill band, a coped E gable with a clock in a stone surround, and small bell tower behind the gable on the ridge. Central S doorway with 4-pane overlight and C20 double doors, entrance in the Wend has steps up to C20 doors and plate glass overlight, and central second-floor hoist door in N side under a bracketed canopy; 6/6-pane horned sashes, 3/6-panes on the second floor. C20 fire escapes to altered doorways at ends of each side.
INTERIOR: lined with vertical timber boarding, ground-floor central chamfered posts, with a good central Imperial stair formed by 2 back-to-back dogleg stairs, one ground-floor flight removed, with uncut string and heavy stick balusters; in the attic is the mechanism of the clock. HISTORY: one of the last buildings built by the Board of Ordnance, on the site of the original powder store. A good and well-preserved example of a small mid C19 naval store, within the best surviving naval ordnance yard in the country.
(Source: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 248-256).
Listing NGR: SX4482154832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476510
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 248-256
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
