Royal Marine Barracks Seagate House, Building Number 8

PLYMOUTH

SX4653 DURNFORD STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/66/774 (East side) 01/05/75 Royal Marine Barracks: Seagate House, Building No.8

GV II

Formerly known as: No 8 (Officers' Quarters House) DURNFORD STREET Stonehouse, R M Barracks. Detached house, now part of Marines barracks. 1850-60. Stuccoed walls; dry slate roof behind coped parapet overmoulded cornice which continues as string under coped gable to front; tall brick lateral stack on left; hip-roofed wing at rear. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2:1-window-range front with gable over left-hand bays and slightly-projecting entrance bay to right. Segmental arches over sashes with glazing bars; round arch to small gable window and round-arched window above entrance. Round-arched doorway with large fanlight above glazed door with margin lights. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. HISTORY: built for the surgeon at a time when the Longroom (qv) was in use as the barracks hospital, and a pair with the Assistant Surgeon's House, now Emma's Cottage (qv). Part of an important and complete barracks complex.

Listing NGR: SX4654653789