Custom House Quay King Charles Quay North Quay Quay Walls and Steps
CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY, TOWN QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269983
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Custom House Quay King Charles Quay North Quay Quay Walls and Steps
- Statutory Address:
- CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY, TOWN QUAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269983
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Custom House Quay King Charles Quay North Quay Quay Walls and Steps
- Statutory Address 1:
- CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY, TOWN QUAY
- Statutory Address 2:
- KING CHARLES QUAY, TOWN QUAY
- Statutory Address 3:
- NORTH QUAY, TOWN QUAY
- Statutory Address 4:
- QUAY WALLS AND STEPS, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
- Statutory Address 5:
- QUAY WALLS AND STEPS, KING CHARLES QUAY
- Statutory Address 6:
- QUAY WALLS AND STEPS, NORTH QUAY
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:
- CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY, TOWN QUAY
- Statutory Address:
- KING CHARLES QUAY, TOWN QUAY
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH QUAY, TOWN QUAY
- Statutory Address:
- QUAY WALLS AND STEPS, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
- Statutory Address:
- QUAY WALLS AND STEPS, KING CHARLES QUAY
- Statutory Address:
- QUAY WALLS AND STEPS, NORTH QUAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Falmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SW8110532609
Details
FALMOUTH
SW8132NW TOWN QUAY
843-1/8/210 Custom House Quay, King Charles Quay
10/09/68 and North Quay
GV II*
Quay walls. 1670, by Peter Killigrew and some later
remodelling. Vertically-set killas dry-stone rubble, built on
quarried ledges of bed-rock on the landward side; granite
ashlar at intervals in places and granite ashlar used for the
south-east end of North Quay; granite steps, and copings
linked with iron cramps; some areas of cobbles on the quay
surface.
PLAN: North Quay has a slender hammer-head end. To the
south-east, running roughly parallel, is the longer Custom
House Quay, L-shaped on plan with its foot continuing past the
nearest extremity of North Quay so as to leave a narrow
channel but protecting the enclosed harbour. Recessed steps
near the inner west angle of North Quay, also to the seaward
side and an L-plan flight to the south-east side towards the
shore, more steps near the inner and outer east angle and the
seaward side of Custom House Quay; steps also to the seaward
side and at the north-west end of King Charles Quay which
fronts the foreshore running north-west.
HISTORY: the construction of these quays, and other C17 quays
along the Falmouth foreshore, enabled the development of this
town as a port, first rivalling the other ports of the Fal
Estuary and then becoming the most important one. Their
particular construction is said to have been copied from Dutch
examples.
Listing NGR: SW8110532609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460232
- 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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