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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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383536
- 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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