Saccone And Speed Limited Warehouse

The Saccone and Speed Limited Warehouse, located on New Street in the Barbican area of Plymouth, is a pair of large warehouses dating from around 1800. The buildings feature walls made of Plymouth limestone rubble, with dressed quoins, jambstones, and voussoirs that form segmental arches. They have two parallel dry slate roofs with gable ends facing the street. The warehouses have a large, roughly rectangular plan that is deeper than it is wide, built into a slope at the rear.

They stand two storeys tall, plus an attic over a basement, and have symmetrical fronts with two windows each, along with central loading doorways. While some openings have been blocked, most remain intact, including those on the right-hand return, and feature original or old shutters and planked doors. Openings are grouped closer to the attic gables and include central loading hoists, one of which has a ring. The basement has four openings with shutters and iron bars, as well as some ventilators with crossed iron bars.

Although the interior has not been inspected, it is likely to retain its original floors and roof structures. This warehouse is noted as one of the most complete and unaltered examples remaining in Plymouth.