Sea Walls at Gun Cliff
SEA WALLS AT GUN CLIFF, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324345
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Sea Walls at Gun Cliff
- Statutory Address:
- SEA WALLS AT GUN CLIFF, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324345
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Sea Walls at Gun Cliff
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEA WALLS AT GUN CLIFF, BRIDGE STREET
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:
- SEA WALLS AT GUN CLIFF, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lyme Regis
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 34293 92092
Details
BRIDGE STREET 1. 1357 (South East Side) Sea Walls at Gun Cliff SY 3492 1/88 15.7.71. II GV 2. One of the most easterly sea forts in Lyme Regis stood on Gun Cliff throughout Blake's defence of Lyme in the English Civil War, until early C19. The walls themselves are of stone rubble laid in regular courses; irregular height; in places with ledges. One wall extends north from Cobb Gate Jetty, eastwards round rear of Nos 1 and 2 Broad Street and northwards again as far as the Buddle Bridge; another wall returns southward from the other side of the Bridge and then eastwards round Gun Cliff; it then returns north following a curve in the land and then eastward as far as the jetty at the east end of the Marine Theatre. Craftsmen from Lyme Regis were well known in mediaeval and late mediaeval times for their skill in constructing piers and sea defences; these walls like the older parts of the walls of the Cobb are an example of this skill [see Gyril Wanklyn," Lyme Regis: a Retrospect;" see also article in Mariners' Mirror for October 1934 and various maps and manuscripts in Manuscrips Room, British Museum.]
From the sea, the sea walls at Gun cliff form a group with the faces of the Museum and Guildhall & with the rear faces of Nos 1 & 2 Broad Street.
Listing NGR: SY3429692090
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103792
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wanklyn, C, Lyme Regis a Retrospect, ()
Mariners Mirror in October, (1934)
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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