HM COASTGUARD RESCUE STATION INCLUDING WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AT FRONT APPROACH

HM COASTGUARD RESCUE STATION INCLUDING WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AT FRONT APPROACH, BERRY HEAD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298275
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: HM COASTGUARD RESCUE STATION INCLUDING WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AT FRONT APPROACH
Statutory Address:: HM COASTGUARD RESCUE STATION INCLUDING WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AT FRONT APPROACH, BERRY HEAD ROAD

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Date:: 2001-06-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298275
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: HM COASTGUARD RESCUE STATION INCLUDING WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AT FRONT APPROACH
Statutory Address 1:: HM COASTGUARD RESCUE STATION INCLUDING WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AT FRONT APPROACH, BERRY HEAD ROAD

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.

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HM COASTGUARD RESCUE STATION INCLUDING WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AT FRONT APPROACH, BERRY HEAD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brixham
National Grid Reference:: SX 93657 56738

Details

BRIXHAM

SX95NW BERRY HEAD ROAD, Berry Head 1946-1/2/25 (North side) 07/11/86 HM Coastguard Rescue Station inc walls, piers, railings at front approach (Formerly Listed as: BERRY HEAD ROAD Berry Head Road Rescue Station)

GV II

Rescue station. c1889. Coursed, rough-faced squared stone rubble. Slated roof. Stone chimney with entablature on rear gable. A small oblong 1-room structure at right-angles to road, set well back. 1 storey. Front has double plank doors, ribbed and with large strap-hinges. Gable has chamfered coping with kneelers; in its centre a round panel with initials BT. Rear gable has matching gable. In each side wall a window with 8-paned sashes. Flanking the approach to the building are 2 stone walls which are bonded into the building itself; flat coping and at front of each a square chamfered pier with pyramidal cap. The left wall contains an iron gate with spear-head uprights. Beyond the piers are 2 low stone walls of similar character surmounted by railings with spear-head uprights. A similar low wall and railing runs off at right-angles to the right-hand pier. Both sets of railings end in a square pier with pyramidal cap. The set to left forms part of the garden railing of No.32 Berry Head Road (qv).

Listing NGR: SX9365756738

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 383536
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.