Joiners Shop (So 95)

The Joiner's Shop, also known as the Upholstery Shop, is a historic building located in the South Yard of Devonport Dockyard, constructed between 1766 and 1773. Originally a hemp house with a mould loft, it later became a joiner's shop. The building features limestone rubble with dressings and a slate roof, and it is open plan.

The exterior is two storeys tall, with an attic and basement, and has a five-window range. It includes rusticated quoins, a plat band, a flat cornice, and a parapet with small gables at each end. The openings have flat surrounds, with a wide segmental-arched carriage entrance at the north end, and keyed round-arched windows with imposts. Most of the metal-framed windows on the first floor have been bricked up.

Inside, a concrete floor was inserted around 1952. This building is the last remaining of four late 18th-century hemp houses at Devonport, where raw hemp was stored before being processed in the Spinning House. Despite alterations, it remains an important part of the late 18th-century ropeyard.