Number 6 Sail Loft (MO 61)
NUMBER 6 SAIL LOFT (MO 61), MORICE YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378562
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 6 Sail Loft (MO 61)
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 6 SAIL LOFT (MO 61), MORICE YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378562
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 6 Sail Loft (MO 61)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 6 SAIL LOFT (MO 61), 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 6 SAIL LOFT (MO 61), 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 44859 54855
Details
SX 4454 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/95/193
No.6, Sail Loft (MO 61)
GV II
Store and sail loft. 1840-50. Squared and coursed limestone with granite dressings and a hipped slate roof. Rectangular open plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 9-window range. Plinth, plat band, with central segmental-arched entrances, (that to the S bricked up), beneath matching tripartite sashes, with round-arched ground floor and segmental-arched first floor 9/9-pane sashes, and tall, narrow hoist bays to first-floor third and seventh bays. Ends have 2 round-arched carriage entrances beneath a single segmental-arched tripartite window with a boarded door to the central part.
I NTERIOR: the ground floor has a central aisle of pairs of tied timber posts with diagonal struts to wide pillars beneath tie beams, and a stair flight with uncut string in the NE corner.
HISTORY: a pair with Store No.3 (qv), and possibly used as stabling for the gun teams with the sail loft above. Part of a good group of (18/19 naval stores, some of the last built by the Board of Ordnance, within the best surviving (18 naval ordnance yard in the country.
(Source: Coad j: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 256).
Listing NGR: SX4485954855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476512
- 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.
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