Building 60 (Pattern and Class Room), Rnad Bull Point is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 2009. Classroom, office.
Building 60 (Pattern and Class Room), Rnad Bull Point
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Moor View MP: Fred Thomas (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 2009
- Type
- Classroom, office
- Address
- Building 60 (Pattern and Class Room), Rnad Bull Point, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 438 575
- Coordinates
- 50.39661, -4.19869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, originally constructed around 1862-3, served as pattern and class rooms, later functioning as a school and occasionally a church in the 1890s. By around 1900, it was used as a cook house and galley, and now functions as offices. It's built of squared limestone rubble with brick dressings, quoins, and an eaves band, topped with a slate hipped roof.
The building has a double-depth plan and a lower north entrance section. The exterior features two storeys and a 1:4 window arrangement. The ground floor has two-centred arched window and door openings, while the first floor has flat-arched openings. The lower north section has a recessed, panelled door. The front and rear elevations, which have four windows each, contain four-pane sashes with horns, except for a single three-pane sash on the north elevation. A 20th-century extension to the south obscures part of the building's southern end; this extension is not part of the listed structure.
The interior retains some 19th-century joinery.
Historically, the building represents a unique instructional building within ordnance depots. The first-floor Model Room once contained specially designed tables for sectional models of fuzes and shells. A laboratory occupied the north end in 1866, divided between a Girls’ School to the south and a Boys’ School to the north. The site of Bull Point, located near Keyham's Steam Yard, was a project of the Board of Ordnance, abolished in 1856, and provided storage for 40,000 barrels of powder. The complex included a floating magazine, the 1805 St Budeaux laboratory, and the Bull Point magazines. This ordnance depot was notable for its planned buildings dedicated to processing as well as storing ordnance – a revolutionary impact on naval ships and fortifications. The buildings, largely in ashlar with rock-faced dressings, were designed to front a southern avenue leading to the magazines, demonstrating a coherent style consistent with the high standards applied to fortifications and barracks from the 17th century and providing a remarkable example of integrated factory planning. Further historical details can be found in a description of Building 13.
Local climate
Building 60 (Pattern and Class Room), Rnad Bull Point 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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