Baste Walls
BASTE WALLS, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236962
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Baste Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BASTE WALLS, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236962
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Baste Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BASTE WALLS, SOUTH STREET
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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:
- BASTE WALLS, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Totnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80143 60351
Details
1. 5180 SOUTH STREET (North Side) Baste Walls SX 8060 SW 1/215
II
2. Late C14 southern circuit of the Totnes Town wall (see Eastgate, High street). The Baste Wall was extensively repaired in circa 1639. The remains are sited along the centre of South Street and consist of the outer face of the curtain wall built of random Devonian limestone rubble. Modern parapet. It extends from opposite No 3 to a point west of NO 13. There are breaks in the wall for modern steps opposite Leechwell. Lane and for a ramp by the Civic Hall near the site of the medieval Shambles Gate. No 10 South Street (qv) may originally have been a defensive tower on the circuit of the wall, like that possibly at the rear of No 2 High Street (qv). The siting of the Baste Walls suggests that the northern raised section of South Street may originally have been a rampart walk.
Listing NGR: SX8014360351
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428008
- 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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