Palace Vaults is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Warehouse. 2 related planning applications.
Palace Vaults
- WRENN ID
- rusted-vault-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Palace Vaults, 33, New Street, City of Plymouth, PL1 2NA
- OS grid reference
- SX 482 540
- Coordinates
- 50.36676, -4.13525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This warehouse, dated 1809 and bearing the inscription "AG Werninck, Palace Vaults," is located on New Street in Plymouth's Barbican area. It is constructed from Plymouth limestone rubble with segmental stone arches over the openings, and has a corrugated asbestos roof. The building has a gable end facing the street and a deep plan.
The symmetrical front facade has two windows above a ground floor that has been altered with a 20th-century shopfront. The shopfront features a large central window with glazing bars and a panelled door flanked by pilasters on either side. The left-hand return displays a ten-window range with three ground-floor doorways and central loading doorways. The building rises four stories plus an attic.
The interior was remodelled in the 1970s and 1980s. The warehouse is situated within New Street, an area notable for its concentration of 17th and 18th century houses and warehouses.
Local climate
Palace Vaults sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% 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 92% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 46 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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