SOUTH SAW MILLS (S 128, 148, 149, 150)

SOUTH SAW MILLS (S 128, 148, 149, 150), SOUTH YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1388413
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: SOUTH SAW MILLS (S 128, 148, 149, 150)
Statutory Address:: SOUTH SAW MILLS (S 128, 148, 149, 150), SOUTH YARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1388413
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: SOUTH SAW MILLS (S 128, 148, 149, 150)
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH SAW MILLS (S 128, 148, 149, 150), SOUTH 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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Location

Statutory Address:: SOUTH SAW MILLS (S 128, 148, 149, 150), SOUTH 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:: SX 44986 54180

Details

SX 4454 SE PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard

740-1/97/225 South Saw Mills (5 128,148, 149,150)

GV II*

Saw mills, disused. c1856-59, probably designed by Col G T Greene, RE, Director of the Admiralty Works Department; sawing machinery by James Horn, steam engine by Easton and Amos. Limestone ashlar with corrugated sheet roof, fire proof iron internal frame. PLAN: rectangular open plan with 7x5-bay saw mill and N former engine and boiler house and chimney (demolished) attached to its Wend. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 8:2-window E and W range, 1 :6-window N range and 2:3:2-window S range. EXTERIOR: E and W elevations have wide clasping pilasters to a cornice and coped parapet, plat band, the 2-window N ends set forward, the second bay from the N has a double door with a radial fanlight, the first bay has a blocked ground-floor window; the main saw mill range to the S has an iron-framed ground-floor of large I-section cast-iron stanchions and sliding metal doors beneath continuous upper glazing with three 12-pane lights to each bay. A sloping apron of granite setts extends down from the doors. N engine and boiler house elevation has a 1-window E section set forward, with fenestration as the E elevation. S elevation has openings within matching arched recesses, round on the ground floor and segmental on the first, to ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes and tilting first-floor casements. 3 gables, taller in the middle, separated by buttresses. INTERIOR: a massive, fire-proof, internal cast-iron frame with hollow round columns to a jack-arch floor springing from cast-iron beams with parabolic bottom flanges; iron roof trusses with hollow section iron valley beams. Open-well stone stair in NE corner. HISTORY: closely related to Greene's contemporary saw mill and smithery at Sheerness (qv). Timber was fed in from the E, through 4 reciprocating frame saws and 3 circular saws arranged along the N-S axis of the mill. In the engine house was a pair of 50hp Easton and Amos rotative beam engines with spur gearing to the drive shaft, and probably providing a forced draft to the adjoining South Smithery (qv). The iron frame is a comparatively old-fashioned system, the heavy work of the mill, built to withstand severe vibration, directing this robust design. Considerable interest as an almost complete fireproof multi-storey saw mill by one of the most important RE officers involved in iron-framed buildings in the dockyards, with its sister building the South Smithery (qv). (Source: PSA Drawings Collection: Unsigned Drawings: 1855: PLM 93-96; Sheerness Dockyard: 1994).

Listing NGR: SX4498654180

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Legacy System number:: 476424
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.