Building 65 (Shell Filling And Packing Workshop), Rnad Bull Point

This is a shell-filling workshop, later used as a carpenters’ shop and now a store. It was built in 1862 at RNAD Bull Point. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with rock-faced quoins, a plinth, and dressings, topped by a corrugated sheet roof. It has a rectangular plan.

The exterior is single-storey and has a 3-window range. The end gables feature a boarded door to the left and a window with 20th-century glazing bars to the right. The north-west side has a wide doorway with a flat lintel, three windows with 20th-century glazing bars, and a segmental-arched doorway with double doors to the right of centre. There are also three blocked windows on the north-west side. The windows at the ends have been shortened, and the end windows on the front elevation have been converted into doors.

The interior features early 20th-century metal trusses.

The workshop was originally built for filling and packing shells and represents a key functional building in the Bull Point complex, which was constructed around a road extending from the magazine enclosure. Bull Point was the final major project of the Board of Ordnance, which was abolished in 1856. It was designed to store 40,000 barrels of powder, and the site included a floating magazine for unloading powder, the 1805 St Budeaux laboratory for checking and processing, and the Bull Point magazines. The buildings are stylistically coherent, reflecting a high standard of design consistent with the Board of Ordnance's work on fortifications and barracks from the 17th century. They represent a remarkable example of integrated factory planning for the period. For more detail on the site's history, see Building 13.