The Shakespeare Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Shakespeare Public House
- WRENN ID
- south-storey-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Shakespeare Public House, 3, Theatre Ope, City of Plymouth, PL1 4HT
- OS grid reference
- SX 455 544
- Coordinates
- 50.36966, -4.17285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shakespeare Public House is a public house built around 1870-1880, located on Theatre Ope in Devonport, Plymouth. It features a stucco exterior and a hipped roof covered with slate or asbestos slate, topped by a heavily-moulded parapet entablature. The building has a stuccoed lateral stack with a moulded cornice positioned near the center of the front.
The structure has a shallow double-depth plan with an entrance at a splayed corner. It stands three storeys tall and has a window arrangement of 2:1:4 on the first floor, which includes a left-hand return. The windows are late 19th-century, with 4-pane horned sashes. The ground floor displays channelled rustication and segmental arches, with a string course above. The first-floor windows are framed by moulded architraves featuring tall keys that rise to moulded hoods, while the second-floor architraves are simpler, with rounded upper corners and sill brackets.
The corner shopfront boasts a full-width moulded entablature above a series of bays divided by pilasters, with doorways that include overlights and panelled doors in the second bay from the left and the right-hand bays. The shop windows are transomed and feature margin lights over panelled stall risers.
The interior has not been inspected but may remain as unaltered as the exterior. The Shakespeare Public House is part of a notable group of buildings in the center of Devonport.
Local climate
The Shakespeare Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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