The Pier
THE PIER, THE ESPLANADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201156
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Pier
- Statutory Address:
- THE PIER, THE ESPLANADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201156
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Pier
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PIER, THE ESPLANADE
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:
- THE PIER, THE ESPLANADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lynton and Lynmouth
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 72276 49683
Details
LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH
SS7149 THE ESPLANADE, Lynmouth 858-1/4/88 (North side) 19/07/50 The Pier (Formerly Listed as: LYNTON THE ESPLANADE The Quay)
GV II
Pier, part of general quay construction. Late C18 or early C19, badly damaged by floods 1952, rebuilt 1954. Rubble and dressed granite, asphalt paving. A short length of vertical quay wall, projecting NE from the junction of The Esplanade with Lynmouth Street. The wall on the outer, NW side is in roughly squared granite blocks, brought to a weathered and rounded flush granite parapet approx 1.5m high, returning across the end, and containing the path, which passes under the Rhenish Tower (qv), and has tubular railings to the SE side. From a broader platform raised on 2 steps at the street end is a long ramp, and beyond the Tower a flight of 20 steps set into the wall.
Listing NGR: SS7227649683
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376544
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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