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Latitude: 50.3899 / 50°23'23"N
Longitude: -4.1822 / 4°10'55"W
OS Eastings: 244977
OS Northings: 56719
OS Grid: SX449567
Mapcode National: GBR R3S.DY
Mapcode Global: FRA 2840.DJF
Plus Code: 9C2Q9RQ9+W4
Entry Name: Hms Drake Howard Building
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1386369
English Heritage Legacy ID: 473754
ID on this website: 101386369
Location: Keyham, Plymouth, Devon, PL2
County: City of Plymouth
Electoral Ward/Division: Devonport
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Plymouth
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Plymouth St Peter and the Holy Apostles
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Building
SX4556NW
740-1/32/167
08/07/98
PLYMOUTH
SALTASH ROAD, Devonport
(West side)
HMS Drake: Howard Building
GV
II
Officer's accommodation, now administration block. 1879-86,
Superintendent Engineer Lt-Col P Smith, RE; extended to SW
1929.
MATERIALS: rusticated Plymouth limestone to basement,
otherwise limestone brought to course and with limestone
dressings; dry slate mansard roof behind parapet with 3
pilastered and segmental-pedimented dormer windows and roof
hidden behind balustraded parapets of flanking attic storeys.
Free Classical style.
PLAN: articulated rectangular plan plus small plan projection
to centre of each end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic, or attic storey, over
basement; symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front. Keyed segmental arches
and band to basement, sill string above and pilasters dividing
bays; mid-floor entablature plus roundelled balconies on
shaped brackets; architraves to openings, moulded hoods on
consoles above French windows and moulded parapet entablature;
3-bay attic storeys with pilasters dividing bays and side bays
blind. Original 12-pane horned sashes and French windows and
original panelled doors to central doorway surmounted by
segmental pediment on shaped brackets. Other elevation with
similar detail where inspected.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: this was the original officer's accommodation when
the barracks was first occupied. They moved into the Wardroom
(qv) when it was completed in 1902. Sailors lived in hulks
until their first barracks were built here at Devonport, then
Chatham and Portsmouth. They followed the same designs, but
HMS Drake was the only one built in ashlar. Part of one of the
finest and most complete barracks complex in England,
manifesting the status and importance of the Royal Navy at
this time.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
655 & 656).
Listing NGR: SX4497756719
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