Royal William Yard
The Royal William Victualling Yard in Stonehouse, a suburb of Plymouth, England, was the major victualling depot of the Royal Navy and an important adjunct of Devonport Dockyard. It was designed by the architect Sir John Rennie and was named after King William IV. It was built between 1826 and 1835, and occupies a site of approximately 16 acres (65,000 m2) being half of Western Kings, north of Devil's Point.
The Yard was released from the MOD in 1992 and subsequently passed to the Plymouth Development Corporation, upon their demise in 1999 it then passed to The South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) who funded and carried out the extensive c£60m restoration of the structural fabric of the majority of principal buildings and infrastructure within the yard between 1999 and 2008. During this period the buildings were re categorised from Scheduled Ancient Monuments to Grade I / 11 listed structures. Private sector development partners Urban Splash were then engaged to carry out the specialist conversion of the site into to an up-market mixed-use development. Described as the grandest of the royal victualling yards, 'in its externally largely unaltered state it remains today one of the most magnificent industrial monuments in the country'.
Plymouth's old victualling yard, on a wharf next to the Citadel at Sutton Pool, predated the establishment of the dockyard at Devonport in 1690. Through the eighteenth century it continued in use, with manufacturing taking place at various locations around the old harbour. Following the Napoleonic Wars, it was resolved to centralise Plymouth's victualling provision on a new site. Over three years, the northern half of the promontory known as Western King was levelled to provide the site for the new yard, the spoil being used to extend the site, which was arranged around a deep basin lined with granite.
The Royal William Yard is a collection of Grade I and Grade II listed buildings, built from Devon limestone with granite detailing; these include (East to West):
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