Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4554 CUMBERLAND ROAD, Devonport
740-1/54/132 (North side)
01/05/75 Blood Transfusion Centre and
attached walls, steps and gate-piers
(Formerly Listed as:
DEVONPORT HILL, Devonport
Devonport Maternity Home (Blood
Transfusion Unit))

II

Part of the former Raglan Barracks, now part of hospital
complex. Early C19. Plymouth limestone ashlar; asbestos slate
hipped roof behind parapet with moulded entablature.
Rectangular plan.
Single storey; 5 bays to front and 3 bays to right-hand
return. Ashlar piers with impost string to recessed panels
within round arches with horned copy sashes with glazing bars
and fanlight heads (blind openings to left and right of
right-hand return).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubble wall with dressed coping to
forecourt raised pavement and flanking steps linked to rubble
wall and pair of square ashlar gate-piers with squat pyramid
caps and linking rubble wall with dressed coping to similar
pair of gate-piers plus further rubble wall.

Listing NGR: SX4583154431

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26423132

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)