Block Two (Former Officers' Quarters) Bull Point Training Centre
BLOCK TWO (FORMER OFFICERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT TRAINING CENTRE, FOULSTON AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390867
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Block Two (Former Officers' Quarters) Bull Point Training Centre
- Statutory Address:
- BLOCK TWO (FORMER OFFICERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT TRAINING CENTRE, FOULSTON AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390867
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Block Two (Former Officers' Quarters) Bull Point Training Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLOCK TWO (FORMER OFFICERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT TRAINING CENTRE, FOULSTON AVENUE
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:
- BLOCK TWO (FORMER OFFICERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT TRAINING CENTRE, FOULSTON AVENUE
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 43842 57878
Details
740-1/0/10043 FOULSTON AVENUE 22-JUN-04 St Budeaux (South side) Block Two (former Officers' quarters), Bull Point Training Centre
GV II Officers' quarters within fort, now training centre. 1840s. English bond red brick with stone plinth, rendered front and sides, with hipped slate roofs.
PLAN: Double-depth plan with central stair.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 7-window range. Rubbed brick flat arches to right-of-centre doorway with mid-C20 door and blocked overlight, and windows with horned 6/6-pane sashes. Single-window left end, 7-window rear has a projecting first-floor bay on cast-iron columns corresponding to the stair.
INTERIOR: refitted as offices, retaining some original joinery and dog-leg stairs.
HISTORY: this defensible barracks was built for the guard of the nearby Bull Point ordnance yard, which was erected for the Ordnance Board between 1851 and 1855, and to protect the northern approaches of Devonport Dockyard from invasion. This is a very complete and unaltered example of a defensible barracks of the type built in the 1840s and 50s, and is the only barracks built around Devonport for the defence of the Dockyard which still remains. The closest example of such a defensible barracks is located close to the dockyard at Pembroke in Wales, the 'police barracks' in the industrial north of England having two survivals (Fulwood Barracks, Preston, and Hillsborough Barracks, Sheffield) which also retain bastioned but less defensible walls.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492318
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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