Royal William Yard

Plymouth, United Kingdom

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 16acre being half of Western Kings, north of Devil's Point. The Yard was closed in 1992 and subsequently passed into private hands. Grade I listed, it was converted to an up-market mixed-use development by Urban Splash. 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'.