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White Yarn House (S 135)

A Grade II* Listed Building in Devonport, City of Plymouth

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.3682 / 50°22'5"N

Longitude: -4.1782 / 4°10'41"W

OS Eastings: 245185

OS Northings: 54296

OS Grid: SX451542

Mapcode National: GBR R4F.1P

Mapcode Global: FRA 2842.81L

Plus Code: 9C2Q9R9C+7P

Entry Name: White Yarn House (S 135)

Listing Date: 13 August 1999

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1378503

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476453

ID on this website: 101378503

Location: Mount Wise, Plymouth, Devon, PL1

County: City of Plymouth

Electoral Ward/Division: Devonport

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Plymouth

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

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Description


SX 4554 SW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard

740-1/98/224 White Yarn House (5 135)

GV II*


White yarn house. 1763. Limestone rubble and dressings with slate roof. Rectangular open plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Rusticated quoins, plat band, flat cornice and parapet, coped end gables, with flat, eared surrounds to openings. The E side has a central doorway and metal door, and tall N window, blind ground-floor and three first-floor openings under the plat band; the S side has two small openings between the first-floor windows.
INTERIOR: contains a king post roof. HISTORY: yarn from the Spinning House (qv) was stored here and then passed to the Tarring House (qv), where it was coated with tar. With the Tarring and Wheel House and Tarred Yarn House (qv), this is part of the most complete surviving yarn and tarring complex in a Naval rope yard, and an early development of process flow techniques.
(Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy: London: 1983: 71; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 199-203).


Listing NGR: SX4518554296

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