Description

SX 4554 SW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard

740-1/98/211 Joiner's Shop (SO 95)

GV II

Alternatively known as: Upholstery shop, SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard.
Hemp house, with mould loft, latterly joiner's shop. 1766-73, roof damaged c1941. Limestone rubble and dressings with slate roof. Open plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. Rusticated quoins, plat band, flat cornice and parapet, with small gables each end. Flat surrounds to openings, a wide segmental-arched carriage entrance in N end, with keyed round-arched windows with imposts and metal-framed windows, most on the first floor bricked up.
INTERIOR: concrete floor inserted c1952.
HISTORY: the last surviving of four late C18 hemp houses at Devonport, where raw hemp was stored before hatchling and being passed to the Spinning House (qv). Although altered, this forms an important part of the late C18 ropeyard.
(Sources: le Page A: Report -GHK Partnership: 1992: 22; Coad J: Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy: London: 1983: 71). ,

Listing NGR: SX4508254395

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26658919

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