HMS Drake Howard Building
HMS DRAKE HOWARD BUILDING, SALTASH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386369
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- HMS Drake Howard Building
- Statutory Address:
- HMS DRAKE HOWARD BUILDING, SALTASH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386369
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- HMS Drake Howard Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- HMS DRAKE HOWARD BUILDING, 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 HOWARD BUILDING, 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:
- SX4497756719
Details
SX4556NW
740-1/32/167
08/07/98
PLYMOUTH
SALTASH ROAD, Devonport
(West side)
HMS Drake: Howard Building
GV
II
Officer's accommodation, now administration block. 1879-86,
Superintendent Engineer Lt-Col P Smith, RE; extended to SW
1929.
MATERIALS: rusticated Plymouth limestone to basement,
otherwise limestone brought to course and with limestone
dressings; dry slate mansard roof behind parapet with 3
pilastered and segmental-pedimented dormer windows and roof
hidden behind balustraded parapets of flanking attic storeys.
Free Classical style.
PLAN: articulated rectangular plan plus small plan projection
to centre of each end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic, or attic storey, over
basement; symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front. Keyed segmental arches
and band to basement, sill string above and pilasters dividing
bays; mid-floor entablature plus roundelled balconies on
shaped brackets; architraves to openings, moulded hoods on
consoles above French windows and moulded parapet entablature;
3-bay attic storeys with pilasters dividing bays and side bays
blind. Original 12-pane horned sashes and French windows and
original panelled doors to central doorway surmounted by
segmental pediment on shaped brackets. Other elevation with
similar detail where inspected.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: this was the original officer's accommodation when
the barracks was first occupied. They moved into the Wardroom
(qv) when it was completed in 1902. Sailors lived in hulks
until their first barracks were built here at Devonport, then
Chatham and Portsmouth. They followed the same designs, but
HMS Drake was the only one built in ashlar. Part of one of the
finest and most complete barracks complex in England,
manifesting the status and importance of the Royal Navy at
this time.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
655 & 656).
Listing NGR: SX4497756719
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473754
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 655-656
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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