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
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 2009
Type
Classroom, office
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

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