Number 5 Store, Colour Loft (MO 56)
NUMBER 5 STORE, COLOUR LOFT (MO 56), MORICE YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378560
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 5 Store, Colour Loft (MO 56)
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 5 STORE, COLOUR LOFT (MO 56), MORICE YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378560
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 5 Store, Colour Loft (MO 56)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 5 STORE, COLOUR LOFT (MO 56), MORICE YARD
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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:
- 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)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- 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.
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