BELL CLIFF RETAINING WALL AND RAILINGS AND STEPS LEADING UP TO NOS. 7 AND 8 BROAD STREET

BELL CLIFF RETAINING WALL AND RAILINGS AND STEPS LEADING UP TO NOS. 7 AND 8 BROAD STREET, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324346
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: BELL CLIFF RETAINING WALL AND RAILINGS AND STEPS LEADING UP TO NOS. 7 AND 8 BROAD STREET
Statutory Address:: BELL CLIFF RETAINING WALL AND RAILINGS AND STEPS LEADING UP TO NOS. 7 AND 8 BROAD STREET, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324346
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: BELL CLIFF RETAINING WALL AND RAILINGS AND STEPS LEADING UP TO NOS. 7 AND 8 BROAD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: BELL CLIFF RETAINING WALL AND RAILINGS AND STEPS LEADING UP TO NOS. 7 AND 8 BROAD STREET, BROAD STREET

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:: BELL CLIFF RETAINING WALL AND RAILINGS AND STEPS LEADING UP TO NOS. 7 AND 8 BROAD STREET, BROAD 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 34211 92063

Details

BROAD STREET 1. 1357 (South-West Side) Bell Cliff Retaining Wall & Railings and steps leading up to Nos 7 & 8 Broad Street SY 3492 1/91 II GV 2. Late C18 probably. High wall of colourwashed stone rubble with capping extends north-east and then west from premises occupied by the Information Bureau, Marine Parade. The wall is surmounted by C19 railings which are looped in pairs. A lower wall extends further north-east from the north-east corner and encloses an L-shaped flight of steps leading up to higher ground before Nos 7 and 8 Broad Street. Painted brick gate piers with capping flank the bottom of the steps; steps partly of blue lias. C19 railings also flank innermost angle of steps.

Bell Cliff Retaining Wall and Railings and Nos 4 to 10 (consec) & 10A Broad Street form a group.

Listing NGR: SY3421292062

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Legacy System number:: 103795
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.