Remains of Pier Wall
REMAINS OF PIER WALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104452
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Pier Wall
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF PIER WALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104452
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Pier Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF PIER WALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
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:
- SS2231224806
Details
SS 22 SW
3/178
HARTLAND
HARTLAND QUAY
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: SS2231224806
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.
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