Sea Wall at Cobb Hamlet
SEA WALL AT COBB HAMLET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246242
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Sea Wall at Cobb Hamlet
- Statutory Address:
- SEA WALL AT COBB HAMLET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246242
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Sea Wall at Cobb Hamlet
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEA WALL AT COBB HAMLET
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:
- SEA WALL AT COBB HAMLET
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 33850 91747
Details
LYME REGIS
SY3391 Sea Wall at Cobb Hamlet
864/2/10006
11-APR-01
GV II
Sea defence wall. Circa late C18 or early C19. Stone rubble, painted with tar. L-shaped on plan with curved corner. Slightly battered revetment, retaining higher ground on landward side and with shingle beach built up and covering lower levels on seaward side. Maximum height of about 6 metres, but only about 2 metres at top is exposed above the shingle.
SOURCE: Lieut Murdoch Mackenzie's 1787 plan of Lyme Cobb, in private collection.
Listing NGR: SY3385091747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Title: Plan of Lyme Cobb
Source Date: 1787
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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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