Bonne Sante Plymouth, Plymouth

Grade-II* listed, 1/5/75, exterior listed. List Entry Number 138 6460, Legacy System Number 473847. Custom house with bonded warehouses. 1820. By David Laing (his 1st job as Surveyor of the Customs). Granite ashlar front with dressed granite detail; rear is Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings; roof hidden behind moulded parapet at the front and coped parapet at rear. Large rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: 2-storeys; symmetrical 5-window front with round-arched openings, those to 1st floor with recessed panels. Central 3 ground floor arches are open to a loggia with a 3-bay groined vault. Parapet has stepped centre with clockface. Rear is a 3-storey, 2:1:2-bay front with centre break. Keyed segmental arches to ground and 1st-floor left and right, most of the 2nd-floor openings have been widened. Wide central segmental-arched doorway and narrow doorways at left and right, the doorway on the right has original 6-panel door with flush bottom panels, the one on the left is now blocked. INTERIOR: not inspected except to note that the warehouses are vaulted to ground floor. A particularly fine example of this building type.