Former Dartmouth Station
Embankment Bistro, South Embankment, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297055
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Dartmouth Station
- Statutory Address:
- Embankment Bistro, South Embankment, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297055
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Dartmouth Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- Embankment Bistro, South Embankment, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BH
- Statutory Address 2:
- Embankment Bistro, South Embankment, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BH
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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:
- Embankment Bistro, South Embankment, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BH
- Statutory Address:
- Embankment Bistro, South Embankment, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87884 51350
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 December 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SX874510
673-1/8/230
DARTMOUTH
SOUTH EMBANKMENT (east side)
Embankment Bistro
Former Dartmouth Station
(Forerly listed as Dartmouth Station, SOUTH EMBANKMENT)
19/08/74
GV
II
Former landing stage for ferry from the Kingswear railway terminus. c1864-70. Timber-framed, of large-panel framing with middle rails covered internally with vertical boards, all painted, on a brick plinth; hipped roof of coated slate.
EXTERIOR: one storey; six-bay front contains a series of windows (mostly full-height) and glazed doors, all C20 without glazing bars. Similar windows and doors on the other sides. Old timber thresholds indicate two original front doorways, one in the bay right of centre and another in the right end bay. Canopy with timber valance across the front carried on cast-iron brackets. It is roofed with corrugated-iron and glass. Timber box cornice at eaves level. Hipped roof has flat top to accommodate ventilators, enclosed by a balustrade of ornamental cast-iron; each standard with a large star and taller, more-elaborate finials each end. At the right (south) end there is a contemporary covered approach originally connecting to the ferry landing stage; a pitched corrugated-iron roof supported at the end on a single upright iron girder.
INTERIOR: flat C20 ceiling hides the roof structure.
Listing NGR: SX8788451350
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387344
- 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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