Entrance Gates and Wall to East Side of Rnad Bull Point
ENTRANCE GATES AND WALL TO EAST SIDE OF RNAD BULL POINT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393249
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gates and Wall to East Side of Rnad Bull Point
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE GATES AND WALL TO EAST SIDE OF RNAD BULL POINT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393249
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gates and Wall to East Side of Rnad Bull Point
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE GATES AND WALL TO EAST SIDE OF RNAD BULL POINT
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:
- ENTRANCE GATES AND WALL TO EAST SIDE OF RNAD BULL POINT
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 43638 57659
Reasons for Designation
These walls and gatepiers form an integral part of the finest ensemble in any of the Ordnance Yards, consistent with the high standards practised by the Ordnance Board in its designs for fortifications and barracks from the C17 and a remarkable example of integrated factory planning of the period.
Details
740-1/0/10044 RNAD BULL POINT 17-APR-09 Entrance gates and wall to east side o f RNAD Bull Point
GV II Walls and gatepiers at ordnance store. 1851-4, designed by Commanding Royal Engineer, Devonport for the Board of Ordnance. Plymouth limestone squared rubble and ashlar piers. Wall extends approx. 750 m from NW to SE, reflecting the secure nature of the site. N entrance has square granite capped piers and later metal gate. E gateway has square granite piers and late C20 gates; the wall alongside is pierced with rifle slits.
HISTORY: This defensible wall encloses the landward side of this important ordnance yard. Bull Point, located just to the north of the Royal Navy's new Steam Yard at Keyham, was the last great project of the Board of Ordnance, which was abolished in 1856. It provided storage for 40,000 barrels of powder in an integrated complex including a floating magazine where powder was unloaded and the 1805 St Budeaux laboratory where it was checked and processed, before being taken to the Bull Point magazines (SAM). In contrast to other yards, Bull Point was from the outset provided with a set of buildings planned and dedicated to the various functions for the processing as well as the storage of the new types of ordnance which had a revolutionary impact on the design of naval ships and fortifications. All the buildings - mostly in ashlar with rock-faced dressings and fronting an avenue to the S of the magazines - are stylistically coherent with the magazines themselves. They comprise both the finest ensemble in any of the Ordnance Yards, consistent with the high standards practised by the Ordnance Board in its designs for fortifications and barracks from the C17 and a remarkable example of integrated factory planning of the period.
For a full history of the site, see Building 13 (qv).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 500701
- 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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