Richmond Dock
Richmond Dock
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1140140
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Richmond Dock
- Statutory Address:
- Richmond Dock
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1140140
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Richmond Dock
- Statutory Address 1:
- Richmond Dock
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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:
- Richmond Dock
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Northam
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 46471 30324
Details
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Richmond Dock
II*
Dry-dock. 1856. Dressed stone rubble revetment walls with a pronounced concave batter, stepped out at two stages at the top. The inner end is rounded on plan and there are C20 lock gates at the seaward end. At intervals on the sides and at the inner end there are integral flights of steps. The floor of the dock is now concrete and there is a C20 gantry above.
Timber was imported from North America in the early C19 when sources of supply from the Baltic ports were affected by the Napoleonic Wars. This trade gradually developed into shipbuilding by James Yeo whereby ships were constructed on Prince Edward Island and sailed over to the Torridge estuary for fitting out. About 55 ships from Prince Edward Island were finished here in 1843 to 1853, but these ships were actually fitted out on the fare-shore. In 1849-50 James Yeo's son William decided to build a dry-dock at Richmond Yard, then a small creek and the dock was built in 1856. It is said to have been the largest dry-dock in the Bristol Channel at the time.
Sources: 1. B Greenhill, 'West Country men in Prince Edward's Isle'.
2. John Barn 'Appledore Handmaid of the Sea'
3. North Devon Museum Trust Handbook No.2
4. Peter Beacham, Devon County Council.
Listing NGR: SS4647130324
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352081
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Greenhill, B, West Country Men in Prince Edwards Isle, ()
Barn, J, Appledore Handmaid of the Sea, ()
North Devon Heritage in North Devon Heritage, Vol. 2, (1990)
Other
Peter Beacham,
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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