REVETMENT WALL TO EAST OF THE QUADRANGLE

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:: REVETMENT WALL TO EAST OF THE QUADRANGLE, NORTH YARD

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Official list entry

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.