RHENISH TOWER

RHENISH TOWER, THE ESPLANADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210267
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: RHENISH TOWER
Statutory Address:: RHENISH TOWER, THE ESPLANADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210267
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: RHENISH TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: RHENISH TOWER, THE ESPLANADE

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:: RHENISH TOWER, 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:: SS7225849666

Details

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

SS7149 THE ESPLANADE, Lynmouth 858-1/4/86 (North side) 19/07/50 Rhenish Tower

GV II

Folly, possibly intended as water tower. Mid to late C19, "... gift of General Rawdon...", badly damaged 1952, rebuilt 1954. Rubble, some brickwork. A square tower with battered sides, set directly on the Quay (qv); at the top are 2 balconies in brickwork, carried on brick machicolations, plus a small brick turret carrying an open brazier, and a rubble unit with raked top, over a doorway. At quay level, on the S side, is a plank entrance door, and to its right a throughway giving access to the quay, with an opening to the E, facing the river estuary. HISTORICAL NOTE: the tower has variously been attributed to the late C18 and early C19, but there is evidence that it was not there, for instance, in 1831. Built at first without the machicolated balconies, these were added, because the tower was regarded by some as an eyesore. Practically destroyed by the great 1952 flood, a stone on the tower records: 'Destroyed August 1952, rebuilt April 1954. Information principally from Pugsley, 1945 (qv), who refers to an earlier writer (Tugwell, 1863), who seems to have been the first to suggest that the design was copied from a tower on the Rhine, hence its name. Tugwell also says that it is '... on the whole, of no great use...', but now it is seen as an essential 'historic' landmark for the town. Included for historical and group value. (Transactions of the Devonshire Association: Pugsley HW: The Tower on Lynmouth Pier: Exeter: 1945-: 191).

Listing NGR: SS7225849666

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Legacy System number:: 376543
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'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1945), 191

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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.