The Ship
The Ship is an office building in Derriford, Plymouth, England. It was designed by Nicholas Grimshaw and is constructed of glass and steel in the form of a ship.Photo: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Office
- Description: listed building in Plymouth, England
- Also known as: “‘The Ship’, Derriford”, “The Ship, Derriford”, and “Western Morning News building”
- Address: Brest Road, Plymouth, PL6 5XN
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Derriford Hospital and Crownhill Fort.
Derriford Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Derriford Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Plymouth, England. The hospital serves Plymouth and nearby areas of Devon and Cornwall. It also provides tertiary cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, renal transplant surgery, and immunology/allergy for the whole of the South West Peninsula. Derriford Hospital is situated 1,400 feet northeast of The Ship.
Crownhill Fort
Castle
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crownhill Fort is a Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s in Crownhill as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth. Restored by the Landmark Trust, it is now home to several small businesses, museums, exhibitions and a holiday apartment sleeping up to eight people. Crownhill Fort is situated 2,700 feet west of The Ship.
Bowden Fort
Fort
Photo: Gwyn Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bowden Fort is a former 19th-century fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. Part of an extensive scheme known as Palmerston Forts, after the prime minister who championed the scheme, it was built to defend the landward approaches to the north east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport. Bowden Fort is situated 3,000 feet south of The Ship.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Estover and Eggbuckland.
Estover
Suburb
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Estover is a district in Devon, England, within the Plymouth boundary area. The original hamlet was extensively developed during the 1970s, into what became back then a large housing estate, consisting almost entirely of council houses, situated five miles northeast of Plymouth city centre in the English county of Devon.
Eggbuckland
Suburb
Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eggbuckland is a suburb of the city of Plymouth, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. Before the Second World War Eggbuckland was a small village a few miles north of Plymouth.
Manadon
Suburb
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Manadon is a predominantly post-war suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. Roughly geographically situated in the centre of the city, it has a primary school, St Boniface's Catholic College, a sports and community hub, two neighbourhood grocers and is home to the Manadon interchange, on the A38 road Parkway.
The Ship
- Category: building
- Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.41383° or 50° 24′ 50″ northLongitude
-4.11881° or 4° 7′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C2QCV7J+GFOpenStreetMap ID
way 40266259OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
office=yesWikidata ID
Q19869596
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