Former Dartmouth Station

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:: Embankment Bistro, South Embankment, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BH

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Official list entry

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

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 387344
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.