Police Offices (Former Dock Entrance Gatehouse N 223) And Attached Wall
POLICE OFFICES (FORMER DOCK ENTRANCE GATEHOUSE N 223) AND ATTACHED WALL, NORTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378576
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Police Offices (Former Dock Entrance Gatehouse N 223) And Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- POLICE OFFICES (FORMER DOCK ENTRANCE GATEHOUSE N 223) AND ATTACHED WALL, NORTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378576
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Police Offices (Former Dock Entrance Gatehouse N 223) And Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLICE OFFICES (FORMER DOCK ENTRANCE GATEHOUSE N 223) AND ATTACHED WALL, 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:
- POLICE OFFICES (FORMER DOCK ENTRANCE GATEHOUSE N 223) AND ATTACHED WALL, 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 45126 55496
Details
SX 4555 NW PLYMOUTH NORTH YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/92/198
Police Offices (former Dock
Entrance Gatehouse, N 223)
and attached wall
GV II
Dockyard gatehouse, now police offices. 1854, by William Scamp, Assistant Director of the Admiralty Works Department. Limestone ashlar with granite dressings and slate hipped roof. Free Italianate style. Double-depth plan with square plan S tower.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 8-bay range with 3-storey; 3-bay right-hand range. An irregular W front has a square 4-stage clock tower 3 bays from the right, the middle 6 bays with the upper storey set back, second bay from the left set forward with steep swept French Empire-style roof with 3 round dormers each side and iron finials, and the left-hand bay set back; ground-floor round-arched arcade with an impost band, moulded architraves and keys, with doorways with half-glazed doors in the projecting left-hand bay. The right-hand S tower has full-height recesses with corbel table and bands to each floor, architraves to casement windows, modillion cornice and balustrade; on top is a granite clock tower over a sunken panel with paired oculi, and an ogee leaded roof with small louvred dormers, the top section raised by a blind timber band. Middle section has a panelled parapet, the upper floor with flat-headed windows; projecting entrance bay has first-floor 3-light mullion windows and panelled aprons, and the end bay 3 narrow first-floor windows and cill band. Horned plate glass sashes. The road front is plainer with blocked windows on the ground and first floors.
INTERIOR: has plain offices and axial corridor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the dock perimeter wall extends N for approx. 350m, with interval pilaster buttresses.
HISTORY: formerly one of a matched pair of gatehouses at right angles to one another with a curved screen wall and gates that formed the entrance to the new North (Steam) Yard; the other was demolished in the 1960s. Listed for architectural interest and group value with other buildings built by Scamp, such as the Quadrangle (qv), as part of the expansion of the steam dockyard.
(Source: The Illustrated London News: London: 1853).
Listing NGR: SX4512655496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476526
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Illustrated London News in Illustrated London News, (1853)
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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