56, Vauxhall Street

No. 56 Vauxhall Street is a bonded warehouse built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings and features a dry slate mansard roof that faces the street. The building has a deep, narrow plan and is tall and narrow, standing three storeys plus an attic storey. The symmetrical front has two windows, each with segmental arches above them, and steeper arches over the attic windows. There is a mid-floor string course above the ground floor. The original two-light windows have iron bars, while the smaller attic windows are single-light and sit above a sill string. Each floor has a wide central doorway, with the attic doorway visually appearing as part of a tall opening to the upper floors. This top doorway includes a central loading boom and a rotatable loading bracket with wall-mounted bearings to its right. The ground-floor doorway is wide, flanked by narrower blocked doorways, and the others have old pairs of ledged doors. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to retain original floor and roof structures.