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

• Wikidata Q26423132

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings