Southdown Quays
SOUTHDOWN QUAYS, SOUTHDOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140601
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Southdown Quays
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTHDOWN QUAYS, SOUTHDOWN
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- Date:
- 2001-06-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/04632/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140601
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Southdown Quays
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTHDOWN QUAYS, SOUTHDOWN
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:
- SOUTHDOWN QUAYS, SOUTHDOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maker-with-Rame
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Millbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4382352737
Details
MILLBROOK
SX 45 SW
6/260
Southdown
Southdown Quays
II
Quays forming two basins. C18. Slatestone rubble, in pitched and horizontal bands, with granite copings; granite ashlar. The quays have battered walls, square-headed jetty to east has flight of granite steps in centre of head and flight of granite steps to south west side. This jetty forms the outer wall to the roughly rectangular basin to east. The second basin to the west is narrower, and has the west wall in slatestone rubble, the north and east walls in granite ashlar.
These quays were used for transporting bricks from the Southdown brickworks; there were formerly brick kilns and quarries to the north west and trackways for waggons to load the bricks. Part of the area adjacent to the quays is cobbled.
This area was first used c 1650, when there was a gunpowder works, probably associated with Plymouth dockyards. There were varied industrial uses of the site subsequently.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 September 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61914
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brown, C G, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Plymouth and Millbrook, (1980)
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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