The Cobb Piers and Walls Including North Wall
THE COBB PIERS AND WALLS INCLUDING NORTH WALL, THE COBB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1229437
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Cobb Piers and Walls Including North Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE COBB PIERS AND WALLS INCLUDING NORTH WALL, THE COBB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1229437
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Cobb Piers and Walls Including North Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COBB PIERS AND WALLS INCLUDING NORTH WALL, THE COBB
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 COBB PIERS AND WALLS INCLUDING NORTH WALL, THE COBB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lyme Regis
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 33843 91509
Details
THE COBB 1. 1357 The Cobb Piers & Walls including North Wall SY 3391 2/3 23.4.52. 1 2. Stone sea-wall of mediaeval origin; Cobb shown in C16 sketch. Before end of C18, wall was dry-built; a small section of this kind of walling remains in the east face of the Victoria Pier. Complete rebuilding took place between 1783 and 1829 especially after the great gales of 1824, which destroyed a great part of the walls. Victoria Pier added between 1842 and 1852. North Wall constructed in 1849 (see RCHM Dorset, Vol I).
Listing NGR: SY3384391509
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404246
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952)
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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