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THE OFFICERS TERRACE (MO 63) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS

THE OFFICERS TERRACE (MO 63) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, MORICE YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378564
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1975
List Entry Name:: THE OFFICERS TERRACE (MO 63) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: THE OFFICERS TERRACE (MO 63) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, MORICE YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378564
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: THE OFFICERS TERRACE (MO 63) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: THE OFFICERS TERRACE (MO 63) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, 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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Statutory Address:: THE OFFICERS TERRACE (MO 63) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, 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 44912 54833

Details

SX 4454 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport Dockyard 740-1/95/194 The Officer's Terrace (MO63) 1.5.1975 and attached railings, rear walls and outbuildings

GV II*

Terrace of 5 houses and stables, now houses and offices. 1720-24, laid out by Colonel C Lilly, with Andrew Jelf, Clerk of Works, for the Board of Ordnance. Dunstone rubble with brick party wall stacks and slate roof. Baroque style. PLAN: double-depth plan with end stables and rear service blocks. EXTERIOR: 3 storey, attic and basement; 21-bay range. A strongly articulated symmetrical terrace with coped parapet. Lower 2 storey central former Commissioner's House is double fronted with a parapet and a small central pediment containing a lunette, steps across the basement area to a round-arched doorway with half-glazed door and plate-glass fanlight, and wide outer segmental-arched tripartite windows with central 8/8-pane sashes, some thick glazing bars. Flanking pairs of houses set forward with clasping pilasters and a parapet, raised to the centre with a round-arched attic window, blind to the left-hand end; each with an outer porch with raised clasping pilasters and doorways as the central house, and round-arched side windows, with round-arched ground floor, segmental-arched first- and second-floor windows, most with 4/4-pane C19 sashes; outer bays have projected ground floor with round-arched doorway and half-glazed door and segmental-arched first-floor window, that at the right-hand end 2 storeys with a second-floor Venetian window. Single-storey screen walls with a recessed flat-headed bay containing a round-arched doorway and half-glazed door give onto a courtyard, and connect the end former stables, facing sideways with 5-window return elevations with central doorways with timber surrounds and a cornice. INTERIOR: central house has a rear lateral passage, rear transverse dogleg stair with uncut string and heavy stick balusters, and panelling with heavy rails with bolection mouldings and wainscot fields; upper floor partly open to king post roof has timber cyma cornices. Joinery includes corner cupboards, fielded shutters and 2-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached mid C20 basement area railings extend the full length of the terrace, turning in to the entrances of each house. Attached rear rubble garden walls extend back to the Yard wall (qv). To N of garden is C18 rubble wall and slated outbuildings extending back to the Morice Gate ( qv). HISTORY: the Terrace for the Yard Officers was part of Lilly's formal plan for the Yard, on the upper part above the excavated lower gun wharf, and using stone quarried on site. An idiosyncratic example of the style associated with Hawksmoor and the Board of Ordnance at this time, at for example the Woolwich Arsenal and Berwick-on- Tweed barracks. The unusually robust internal joinery suggests the work of a naval rather than house carpenter. The terrace is also a notably early and strongly articulated example of a palace front composition, and part of a fine series of Officers' terraces in the Royal Dockyards. (Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy: London: 1983: 141; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989: 652-3; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 249-252; Barker N: English Architecture Public and Private: London: 1993: 211).

Listing NGR: SX4491254833

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Legacy System number:: 476514
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bold, , Chaney, , English Architecture Public and Private Essays for Kerry Downes, (1993), 211
Coad, J , Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy, (1983), 141
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 249-252
Pevsner, N , The Buildings of England: Devon North, (1952), 652-653

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