THE CHINA HOUSE

THE CHINA HOUSE, SUTTON ROAD, BARBICAN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386423
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: THE CHINA HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE CHINA HOUSE, SUTTON ROAD, BARBICAN

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Date:: 2005-10-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386423
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: THE CHINA HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE CHINA HOUSE, SUTTON ROAD, BARBICAN

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE CHINA HOUSE, SUTTON ROAD, BARBICAN

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:: SX4850054263

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW 740-1/62/77 01/05/75

SUTTON ROAD, Barbican (West side (off)) The China House (Formerly Listed as: SUTTON ROAD, Plymouth Westernmost Warehouse overlooking Coxside Creek and Sutton Harbour)

GV II

Large warehouse, now a public house. 1650 by John Rattenburg, extended late C20. Plymouth limestone rubble walls; new dry slate hipped roof. Large rectangular plan plus C20 wing at rear centre. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 9-window range, the 3 centre windows now sheltered under an open gabled balconied projection. C20 windows and doors. Left-hand return has a blocked round-arched opening towards the rear. INTERIOR: C17 features survive in the end walls including a blocked chamfered fireplace and the remains of a winder stair at the left-hand end. There is a segmental-arched fireplace at the other end. There are some re-used original oak roof trusses with curved feet, lapped and dove-tailed collars and evidence of threaded purlins. HISTORY: 1667 bought by Harbour Commissioners and used as victualling and naval storehouse; 1697 became a gun wharf for Board of Ordnance; 1756 adapted as a naval hospital; 1768-74 was the factory of William Cookworthy, 1st maker of porcelain in England (1st patent 1768). Despite conversion, this building makes a positive contribution to the character of the harbour area, an early example of a warehouse in England, and its interest is enhanced by its leading role in the development of porcelain manufacture.

Listing NGR: SX4850054263

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Legacy System number:: 473810
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.