Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4653 DURNFORD STREET, Stonehouse
740-1/66/774 (East side)
01/05/75 Royal Marine Barracks: Seagate
House, Building No.8

GV II

Formerly known as: No 8 (Officers' Quarters House) DURNFORD
STREET Stonehouse, R M Barracks.
Detached house, now part of Marines barracks. 1850-60.
Stuccoed walls; dry slate roof behind coped parapet
overmoulded cornice which continues as string under coped
gable to front; tall brick lateral stack on left; hip-roofed
wing at rear. Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2:1-window-range front with gable over
left-hand bays and slightly-projecting entrance bay to right.
Segmental arches over sashes with glazing bars; round arch to
small gable window and round-arched window above entrance.
Round-arched doorway with large fanlight above glazed door
with margin lights.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
HISTORY: built for the surgeon at a time when the Longroom
(qv) was in use as the barracks hospital, and a pair with the
Assistant Surgeon's House, now Emma's Cottage (qv). Part of an
important and complete barracks complex.

Listing NGR: SX4654653789

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537242

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)