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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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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