The BTP opened on Sat 11 July 2015 in the Grade II-listed 3-storey Jamaica House. The building has been sensitively transformed to seat 150, with a covered outside seating area with views over the marina and the Barbican. The cafe-bar has been designed with an eclectic mix of up-cycled, salvaged and restored furniture and fittings installed, including old gymnasium flooring on the walls and school chairs. A pay-and-display car park is situated next door. Real ale is not available.
Historic Interest
Grade II listed 09/11/98, List Entry No 138 6488, Legacy System No 473875. 2 pairs of warehouses, now used as 1 shop. Mid/late C19. Plymouth limestone rubble with brick dressings including brick mid-floor band to upper floors, stucco to ground floor of street front; hipped slate parallel roofs, each roof divided by a coping. Overall a square-plan block, probably built in 2 phases. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 6-window paired street front with splayed corners. Segmental arches over 6-pane windows to upper floors, C20 windows with leaded glazing to ground floor, all in deep reveals. The stuccoed shop frontage has a moulded capital string and a plain fascia surmounted by a cornice; there are 2 narrow shop doorways and a window to either side of each. Right-hand return has loading frontage of 2 warehouses, wider frontage on the left; each nearly symmetrical 2-window range frontage has central loading doorways; wider doorways to ground floor, the right-hand doorway widened; loading boom above eaves. The other warehouse has had its right-hand doorway converted to a doorway and the window above blocked with rubble. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Boston Tea Party, Plymouth