HMS Drake, Drake House and Attached Walls and Railings
HMS DRAKE, DRAKE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, SALTASH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386366
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- HMS Drake, Drake House and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- HMS DRAKE, DRAKE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, SALTASH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386366
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- HMS Drake, Drake House and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HMS DRAKE, DRAKE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, SALTASH ROAD
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:
- HMS DRAKE, DRAKE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, SALTASH ROAD
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 45091 56684
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4556NW SALTASH ROAD, Devonport 740-1/32/166 (West side) 08/07/98 HMS Drake: Drake House and attached walls & railings
GV II
Commodore's house, including attached porch on road frontage and flanking walls and iron railings. 1887, Superintendent Engineer Lt-Col P Smith RE. Plymouth limestone brought to course and with limestone dressings; steep dry slate roofs with projecting eaves and decorated barge boards, very steep roof over tower; stone axial, gable and lateral stacks with moulded cornices. Baronial Gothic style and some Classical detail. Irregular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; irregular 3-bay entrance front. On the left is a square 3-storey tower with sill string to 2nd floor and moulded parapet entablature; paired lights to upper floors and central window to ground floor. Projecting gabled bay right of tower has double-transomed 3-light windows to upper floors and side walls ramped flanking balcony with cast-iron balustrade and with moulded cornice over projecting ground floor. Right-hand bay has canted attic dormer window over 1st-floor window and L-plan porch to ground floor, a lean-to returned to front and to stuccoed road frontage entrance with stepped tripartite doorway with triangular pediment over central doorway to porch and flanking moulded courtyard doorways, all with moulded hoods, and rusticated terminal piers with plinths, moulded entablature and rounded caps. Other elevations with various details on the theme of the front. Original windows, mostly horned sashes and original panelled doors. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Plymouth limestone road-frontage walls with dressed plinths and copings surmounted by wrought-iron railings with trident finials between turned cast-iron stanchions. HISTORY: a building unique to naval barracks, and a striking and original composition. Forms part of the navy's first barracks for sailors, one of the finest and most complete barracks in the country, manifesting the status and importance of the Royal Navy at this time. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 655).
Listing NGR: SX4509156684
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473751
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 655
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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