HMS DRAKE MAIN GATEWAY WITH GATE PIER ARCHES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS

HMS DRAKE MAIN GATEWAY WITH GATE PIER ARCHES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS, SALTASH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386370
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: HMS DRAKE MAIN GATEWAY WITH GATE PIER ARCHES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: HMS DRAKE MAIN GATEWAY WITH GATE PIER ARCHES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS, SALTASH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386370
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: HMS DRAKE MAIN GATEWAY WITH GATE PIER ARCHES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: HMS DRAKE MAIN GATEWAY WITH GATE PIER ARCHES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS, SALTASH ROAD

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:: HMS DRAKE MAIN GATEWAY WITH GATE PIER ARCHES, GATES, FLANKING 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 45052 56778

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4556NW SALTASH ROAD, Devonport 740-1/32/169 (West side) 01/05/75 HMS Drake: Main Gateway with gate-pier arches, gates, flanking walls & railings

GV II

Formerly known as: (HMS Drake) Main Gates to Saltash Road SALTASH ROAD Devonport. Entrance gates, gate-pier arches, flanking walls at main entrance, with railings extending approx 400m to S and SW. 1906-7, Superintendent Engineer possibly Major Monro Wilson, RE. Dressed Plymouth limestone and iron railings. Wide carriageway flanked by 2 pedestrian entrances through 2 Classical style arches plus low curved-plan wall on the right surmounted by iron railings, high wall linked to guardroom block with clocktower on the left. Each round keyed arch has flanking vermiculated pilasters. Dentilled entablature with pulvinated friezes and centre panels surmounted by segmental pediments with richly carved panels and central wreaths with twined anchors. Wrought-iron gates with close-set bars, double top rails and triple lock/bottom rails with scrolled decoration between the 2 bottom rails. Pedestrian gates also have turned decoration between top rails and scrolled tympanae. HISTORY: the main entrance was built as part of the third phase of construction of the barracks, though the design may have been settled in the 1870s when the barracks was begun, since the later buildings are consistent with the earliest. Formed the main entrance to the first navy barracks, now one of the finest and most complete in England, manifesting the importance and status of the Royal Navy at this time. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 655 & 656).

Listing NGR: SX4505256778

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 473755
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.