The Ship Public House

The Ship Public House is a late 18th-century warehouse, with a slightly later public house addition, located on Quay Road in Plymouth’s Barbican. The warehouse is constructed of Plymouth limestone rubble with dressed stone voussoirs and timber lintels, and has a dry slate hipped mansard roof. The roof includes three mansard dormer windows with 2-light casements featuring glazing bars, and a former mansard loading doorway, also with a 2-light casement. The public house section is rendered on a probable studwork frame and has an asbestos slate hipped roof.

The building is four storeys high with two storeys plus an attic to the warehouse section. The public house frontage has a two-window range to each front, with a blind third floor and a single window to the left of the second floor on the Quay Road elevation. Most windows are original 12-pane hornless sashes, although a later window is present on the first floor of the Quay Road front. The original or mid-19th century shopfront on the Quay Road frontage retains a moulded entablature over reeded pilasters and consoles, with early 20th century leaded glazing in transomed lights. A doorway with a glazed door and leaded overlight is located on the Parade Ope front.

The warehouse originally had a seven-window range, but the central five windows have been combined into a single opening with nine linked 20th-century windows with glazing bars. The ground floor of the warehouse includes an original segmental-arched carriage doorway on the left, a central window under a flat arch, and other openings which are later or altered. The interior of the building has not been inspected.