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Latitude: 50.3673 / 50°22'2"N
Longitude: -4.1777 / 4°10'39"W
OS Eastings: 245217
OS Northings: 54200
OS Grid: SX452542
Mapcode National: GBR R4H.Y1
Mapcode Global: FRA 2842.87G
Plus Code: 9C2Q9R8C+WW
Entry Name: Tarred Yarn Store
Listing Date: 13 August 1999
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378504
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476454
ID on this website: 101378504
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
740-1/98/229 Tarred Yarn Store (S 138)
GV II*
Tarred yarn store. Dated 1769 on hoppers. Limestone rubble and dressings with slate roof.
Rectangular open plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 5-window range. Plinth, plat band and flat cornice and parapet, with eared flat surrounds to the openings, central doorway and blind first-floor windows. S gable has a raised stepped top with square plinths to ball finials at the sides and top, an inserted vehicle entrance and 3 blind oculi. W side has 3 small blind openings between the ground-floor windows; E side has two good dated hoppers inscribed GR.
INTERIOR: contains a king post roof supporting a raised walkway with the rope-winding horizontal capstans that distributed the yarn through the store.
HISTORY: yarn that had been tarred was wound on to bobbins and stored here before being taken to the West Ropehouse (demolished) for laying. With the White Yarn House and Tarring and Wheel Houses (qv) part of the most complete of such tarring and yarn store complexes in a Naval dockyard.
(Sources: The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989: 652; Coad J: Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy: London: 1983: 71- 79; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 199-203).
Listing NGR: SX4521754200
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