NUMBER 17 STORE (MO 37)

NUMBER 17 STORE (MO 37), MORICE YARD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378561
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 17 STORE (MO 37)
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 17 STORE (MO 37), MORICE YARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378561
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 17 STORE (MO 37)
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 17 STORE (MO 37), 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 17 STORE (MO 37), 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 44923 54976

Details

SX 4454 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport Dockyard 740-1/95/190 No.17 Store (MO 37)

GV II

Ordnance store. 1740-50. Dunstone brown rubble, English bond brick, with hipped slate roof. Single-depth plan. EXTERIOR: single storey; 4-window range. Brick corners, the front has a closed arcade of round brick arches with flat arches to horned 6/6-pane sashes, rubble walls, and a round-arched doorway and metal-clad door in the end facing the Powder House (qv). INTERIOR: without special features, has an inserted floor and 3-bay roof with C20 roof timbers. HISTORY: the Yard was laid out by the Board of Ordnance from 1720. Of similar materials to the adjoining Powder House (qv), and possibly connected in its purpose. Listed for group value, and as part of the best surviving C18 ordnance yard in the country. (Source: Coad j: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 253-255).

Listing NGR: SX4492354976

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Legacy System number:: 476511
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 253-255

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.