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Latitude: 50.3731 / 50°22'23"N
Longitude: -4.183 / 4°10'58"W
OS Eastings: 244859
OS Northings: 54855
OS Grid: SX448548
Mapcode National: GBR R3M.L5
Mapcode Global: FRA 2841.S73
Plus Code: 9C2Q9RF8+6Q
Entry Name: Number 6 Sail Loft (Mo 61)
Listing Date: 13 August 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378562
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476512
ID on this website: 101378562
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 4454 NE PLYMOUTH MORICE YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/95/193
No.6, Sail Loft (MO 61)
GV II
Store and sail loft. 1840-50. Squared and coursed limestone with granite dressings and a hipped slate roof. Rectangular open plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 9-window range. Plinth, plat band, with central segmental-arched entrances, (that to the S bricked up), beneath matching tripartite sashes, with round-arched ground floor and segmental-arched first floor 9/9-pane sashes, and tall, narrow hoist bays to first-floor third and seventh bays. Ends have 2 round-arched carriage entrances beneath a single segmental-arched tripartite window with a boarded door to the central part.
I NTERIOR: the ground floor has a central aisle of pairs of tied timber posts with diagonal struts to wide pillars beneath tie beams, and a stair flight with uncut string in the NE corner.
HISTORY: a pair with Store No.3 (qv), and possibly used as stabling for the gun teams with the sail loft above. Part of a good group of (18/19 naval stores, some of the last built by the Board of Ordnance, within the best surviving (18 naval ordnance yard in the country.
(Source: Coad j: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 256).
Listing NGR: SX4485954855
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