Number 2 Store And Former Furbishers Shop (Mo 68)

Number 2 Store and former Furbisher's Shop, known as MO 68, is a disused carriage store and furbisher's shop built around 1776, likely by Major Dixon. The building features Dunstone brown rubble with a southwest lateral stack, and a west block made of squared limestone with limestone dressings, including a rear stack and slate hipped roofs. The layout consists of an open four-cell plan for the store and a single-depth two-cell plan for the furbisher's shop.

The exterior is two storeys high and includes a seven-window range with a three-window west end and a lower two-storey five-window range for the furbisher's shop. It has a plinth and string course, with flat arches above four ground-floor openings. There are three doorways located at the centre and right-hand end, with the main central entrance featuring 18th-century double doors. The first floor has horned six-over-six pane sash windows, while the furbisher's shop has a double front with rusticated quoins, a plat band, and raised surrounds to the openings, including a four-panel door and six-over-six pane sashes. The gable is blind, and there is a rear elevation. A notable feature is a dated cast-iron hopper.

Inside, the store retains a remarkably complete interior lined with boarding, divided into four sections by timber partitions supported by posts that hold transverse floor beams. The floor is flagged, and there is an original central transverse dogleg stair leading to the back, featuring uncut string and heavy stick balusters, along with a king and queen post roof. The furbisher's shop has been altered internally, with a later left-hand stair and an original door surround in the right-hand room.

Historically, the Yard was established in 1720 by Colonel Lilly for the Board of Ordnance. This store is part of the late 18th-century expansion of the yard and is reported to have included wooden tramways and wall cranes. The furbisher's shop is paired with Number 12 Store. It is a notably unaltered example of a late 18th-century small naval store, situated within the best surviving 18th-century naval ordnance yard in the country.