REMAINS OF PIER WALL
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104452
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF PIER WALL
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF PIER WALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hartland
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 22316 24804
Details
HARTLAND HARTLAND QUAY
SS 22 SW
3/178 Remains of Pier Wall
-
GV II
Pier wall. Originally built in late C16 by William Abbott inheritor of Hartland
Abbey and its estate, what now survives however is likely to be the work of one of
several subsequent rebuildings or repairs throughout the C17, C18 and C19 until 2
severe storms in 1887 and 1896 effected the 2 stage destruction of the pier. Large
grounders with stone rubble blocks above.
Hartland Quay was probably at its most prosperous during the C18 and early C19 - in
1841 after the damage to its pier-head during gales its owner Lewis William Buck was
confident enough of the quay's future to raise £1200 for its repair. However in the
2nd half of the C19 the fortunes of the quay declined, augmented by the arrival of
the railway in Bideford in 1855 and the climate of agricultural depression. When
therefore further considerable damage was suffered in 1887 Sir George Stuckley
refused to rebuild, merely re-facing the stump of the pier and the remainder was
swept away in 1896. Already business in the Quay had ceased, with the last ship,
the Rosamund Jane, departing in 1893.
Source: Hartland Quay - The Story of a Vanished Port: M. Nix and M. R. Myers
Listing NGR: SS2231624804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91244
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rix, , Meyers, , Hartland Quay The Story of a Vanished Port
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
