HARBOUR WALLS COMPRISING WALLS TO SOUTH OF NORTH QUAY, TO EAST OF THE STRAND AND TO NORTH OF SOUTH QUAY, SLIPS AND PIER ON NORTH EAST OF SOUTH QUAY

HARBOUR WALLS COMPRISING WALLS TO SOUTH OF NORTH QUAY, TO EAST OF THE STRAND AND TO NORTH OF SOUTH QUAY, SLIPS AND PIER ON NORTH EAST OF SOUTH QUAY, HARBOUR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211797
Date first listed:: 20-May-1988
List Entry Name:: HARBOUR WALLS COMPRISING WALLS TO SOUTH OF NORTH QUAY, TO EAST OF THE STRAND AND TO NORTH OF SOUTH QUAY, SLIPS AND PIER ON NORTH EAST OF SOUTH QUAY
Statutory Address:: HARBOUR WALLS COMPRISING WALLS TO SOUTH OF NORTH QUAY, TO EAST OF THE STRAND AND TO NORTH OF SOUTH QUAY, SLIPS AND PIER ON NORTH EAST OF SOUTH QUAY, HARBOUR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211797
Date first listed:: 20-May-1988
List Entry Name:: HARBOUR WALLS COMPRISING WALLS TO SOUTH OF NORTH QUAY, TO EAST OF THE STRAND AND TO NORTH OF SOUTH QUAY, SLIPS AND PIER ON NORTH EAST OF SOUTH QUAY
Statutory Address 1:: HARBOUR WALLS COMPRISING WALLS TO SOUTH OF NORTH QUAY, TO EAST OF THE STRAND AND TO NORTH OF SOUTH QUAY, SLIPS AND PIER ON NORTH EAST OF SOUTH QUAY, HARBOUR

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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:: HARBOUR WALLS COMPRISING WALLS TO SOUTH OF NORTH QUAY, TO EAST OF THE STRAND AND TO NORTH OF SOUTH QUAY, SLIPS AND PIER ON NORTH EAST OF SOUTH QUAY, HARBOUR

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Padstow
National Grid Reference:: SW9190775456

Details

PADSTOW HARBOUR, Padstow SW 9075-9175 8/81 Harbour walls comprising walls to south of North Quay, to east of the Strand and to north of South Quay, slips and pier on north east of South Quay

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Harbour walls. Gradually built up after the construction of the north pier (qv) in circa 1534. The harbour was deepened and the piers rebuilt in circa 1854. Slate stone rubble walls laid in horizontal and vertical courses in front of the South Quay, the Strand and the North Quay with slipways on the south, south west and north. The south pier extends northwards from the South Quay and the north or jetty pier (not included in listing) was added in 1931 in reinforced concrete and stone rubble. The port of Padstow was already of some importance in the C13 and C14. In 1584 Norden described it as 'the best haven on the north part of the shyre' and in 1602 Carew wrote of Padstow 'a town and haven of suitable quality for both (though bad) are the best that the north Cornish coast possesseth'. During the C16 the chief exports were fish, tin and west country cloth and during the C17 slates were of considerable importance. Access to the port was considerably aided in 1829 when the Padstow Harbour Association was formed to improve the entrance, setting up the Capstans at Stepper Point and in 1844 the Padstow Harbour Commission was established to regulate and improve the harbour. Rawe, D and Ingrey, J Padstow and District. 1984

Listing NGR: SW9190775456

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Sources

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Rawe, D R, Ingrey, J, Padstow and District, (1984)

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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.