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Number 12 the Painted Canvas Store (Mo 46)

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.3733 / 50°22'23"N

Longitude: -4.1829 / 4°10'58"W

OS Eastings: 244870

OS Northings: 54880

OS Grid: SX448548

Mapcode National: GBR R3N.9B

Mapcode Global: FRA 2841.S89

Plus Code: 9C2Q9RF8+8R

Entry Name: Number 12 the Painted Canvas Store (Mo 46)

Listing Date: 13 August 1999

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1378552

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476502

ID on this website: 101378552

Location: Morice Town, 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

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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Description


SX 4454 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/95/188
No.12 The Painted Canvas
Store (MO 46)

GV II*


House, now store. Dated 1777 on hopper, altered mid C20. Limestone ashlar with rubble sides and rear and corrugated sheet roof. Single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Double-fronted with rusticated quoins, plat band and raised surrounds to a heavy cross-boarded door and horned first-floor 2/2-pane and ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes. Good lead hopper head to left of the entrance. Windowless sides and rear without dressings.
INTERIOR: fittings and roof altered mid C20.
HISTORY: one of a pair of matching houses with the house of the former Furbisher's Shop attached to Store No.2 (qv). Part of the expansion of the yard in the 1770s, and following the formal plan established in the 1720s by Colonel Lilly. Part of the best surviving C18 naval ordnance yard in the country.
(Source: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 248-254).


Listing NGR: SX4487054880

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