North Yard Offices (N 215) And Attached Front Walls
NORTH YARD OFFICES (N 215) AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, NORTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378574
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- North Yard Offices (N 215) And Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH YARD OFFICES (N 215) AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, NORTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378574
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- North Yard Offices (N 215) And Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH YARD OFFICES (N 215) AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, NORTH 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:
- NORTH YARD OFFICES (N 215) AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, 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 45103 55598
Details
SX 4555 NW PLYMOUTH NORTH YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/92/196
North Yard Offices (N 215)
and attached front walls
GV II
Terrace of offices. Dated 1903 and 1910 above entrances. Limestone ashlar with parapeted slate roofs. Classical style. Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: facade consists of 3 blocks of 3-storey terraces, linked by recessed 2-storey bays, the ground rising towards the south. North terrace of 3:13:3 fenestration with plat bands, cornice to parapet, pilasters to pedimented outer 3-window bays and slightly-projecting central one-window entrance bay: horned 6/6 pane sashes; hollow-moulded architrave to rusticated entrance, surmounted by pilasters framing tripartite windows (pedimented to first floor) and rising to date panel set above cornice. Terrace wall with steps and lamps to front, with south-end steps terminating next to central terrace. Central terrace of 4:3:4:3:4 fenestration with pilasters framing 3-window pedimented bays, plat bands, cornice to parapet and battered plinth of rougher stone; 6/9-pane sashes to 2-storey elevation, of equal height to flanking terraces; entrance to 3-window pedimented bay on right, with continuous cornice broken by pedimented tripartite window with pilasters set above semi-circular arched rusticated entrance. South terrace of 2:3:2:3:2-window fenestration is treated in a more robust manner than the others, with chamfered surrounds to horned 6/6-pane sashes, bracketed cornices to parapets, and battered walls to slightly projecting 2-window outer bays and narrow central entrance bay with paired smaller sashes; bolection-moulded doorway to porch with cornice.
INTERIORS: noted as retaining original joinery, including doors, and open-well staircases. HISTORY: built to serve the Key ham extension to the Dockyard (opened 1907). A plain but prominent facade, forming an important part of the Key ham extension linking the former dockyard entrance, now the Police House with the retaining wall behind the Quadrangle (qv), and marking the end of an important period of expansion in the Dockyard. Included as part of a group with the Police House, retaining wall and Quadrangle (qv).
(Source: The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989: 653).
Listing NGR: SX4510355598
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476524
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Devon North, (1952), 653
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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