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Latitude: 50.3729 / 50°22'22"N
Longitude: -4.1836 / 4°11'0"W
OS Eastings: 244821
OS Northings: 54832
OS Grid: SX448548
Mapcode National: GBR R3J.Q6
Mapcode Global: FRA 2831.ZY4
Plus Code: 9C2Q9RF8+4H
Entry Name: Number 5 Store, Colour Loft (Mo 56)
Listing Date: 13 August 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378560
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476510
ID on this website: 101378560
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: Building
SX 44S4 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/95/187
No.5 Store, Colour Loft (MO 56)
GV II
Store. 1840-50. Limestone ashlar with granite dressings and slate roof, hipped to the Wend. Rectangular 2-cell plan with central through passage with stair.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 7 -window range with 3-window ends. Store has a cill band, a coped E gable with a clock in a stone surround, and small bell tower behind the gable on the ridge. Central S doorway with 4-pane overlight and C20 double doors, entrance in the Wend has steps up to C20 doors and plate glass overlight, and central second-floor hoist door in N side under a bracketed canopy; 6/6-pane horned sashes, 3/6-panes on the second floor. C20 fire escapes to altered doorways at ends of each side.
INTERIOR: lined with vertical timber boarding, ground-floor central chamfered posts, with a good central Imperial stair formed by 2 back-to-back dogleg stairs, one ground-floor flight removed, with uncut string and heavy stick balusters; in the attic is the mechanism of the clock. HISTORY: one of the last buildings built by the Board of Ordnance, on the site of the original powder store. A good and well-preserved example of a small mid C19 naval store, within the best surviving naval ordnance yard in the country.
(Source: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 248-256).
Listing NGR: SX4482154832
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