WALL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES WEST OF WEMBURY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1169185
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: WALL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES WEST OF WEMBURY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WALL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES WEST OF WEMBURY HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1169185
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: WALL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES WEST OF WEMBURY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WALL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES WEST OF WEMBURY HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WALL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES WEST OF WEMBURY HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Wembury
National Grid Reference:: SX 53035 49189

Details

SX 54 NW WEMBURY 8/195 Wall approximately 90 metres west of Wembury House

GV II*

Large wall possibly defensive which is all that survives of a late C16 mansion. Circa late C16. Enormous rampart faced in stone rubble with granite dressings, with a grassed walk on top. The outer (west) revetment wall has buttresses with set-offs, and moulded saddle-back coping. Eastern side also buttressed but without stone coping. The eastern side has a flight of steps leading down to a lawn in front of the house. The house (Wembury House qv) was built on the site of a great mansion of Sir John Hele who bought the estate in 1592 and built what was reputedly an enormous house of which only this wall survives. It is said to have been a fortification against pirates because of its proximity to the coast.

Listing NGR: SX5303549189

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Legacy System number:: 100474
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.