Number 8 Dock
NUMBER 8 DOCK, NORTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378573
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 8 Dock
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 8 DOCK, NORTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378573
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 8 Dock
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 8 DOCK, NORTH YARD
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.
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 8 DOCK, NORTH 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 44808 56192
Details
SX 4456 SE PLYMOUTH NORTH YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/90/197
No.8 Dock
GV II
Dry dock. Begun 1896; extended twice prior to 1914. Built of Cornish granite, supplemented by supplies from Norway. Over 700 feet long and of traditional form with altars stepped inwards, flights of steps and arched entries.
HISTORY: built as part of the Key ham extension to the Devonport Dockyards, begun in 1896 and prompted by the need for more docking and berthing facilities. Devonport was thought to be the first port of call in wartime; by 1914 it had become the largest naval base in Western Europe. Five Dreadnoughts, in addition to other battleships and cruisers forming part of Admiral Fisher's expansion of the fleet, were constructed here prior to 1914. Included, with its related Pumping Station (qv), as an example of the largest shipbuilding docks in a naval yard, representative of a period in which naval construction was of prime national strategic significance, and international consequence.
Listing NGR: SX4480856192
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476523
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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