Revetment Wall to East of the Quadrangle
REVETMENT WALL TO EAST OF THE QUADRANGLE, NORTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378578
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Revetment Wall to East of the Quadrangle
- Statutory Address:
- REVETMENT WALL TO EAST OF THE QUADRANGLE, NORTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378578
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Revetment Wall to East of the Quadrangle
- Statutory Address 1:
- REVETMENT WALL TO EAST OF THE QUADRANGLE, 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:
- REVETMENT WALL TO EAST OF THE QUADRANGLE, 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:
- SX4509155722
Details
SX 4555 NW PLYMOUTH NORTH YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/92/889
Revetment wall to E of
the Quadrangle
GV II
Retaining wall. 1850s. Squared limestone rubble wall with ashlar towers and dressings. Tall battered wall extends approx. 250m N from the North Yard Offices (qv) in three sections to the E of the Quadrangle (qv). Square stair tower to the S end with round-arched entrance in the tall plinth, open arched windows at the top and a granite string beneath a coped parapet. Steps out slightly with square tower, turns E at the N end to a further tower in the inner corner. A section of wall runs approx. 35m to the E with an arched walkway on the S side, to connect
to a tower on the perimeter wall (qv). HISTORY: this imposing retaining wall was built for the cleared site of the Quadrangle. Reservoirs, now infilled, on the upper level pressured the hydraulic system serving the North Yard docks. It forms an impressive backdrop to the North Yard, continuing the line of the North Yard Offices (qv).
Listing NGR: SX4509155722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476528
- 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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