Firestone Bay Sea Wall, Royal William Victualling Yard
FIRESTONE BAY SEA WALL, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378548
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Firestone Bay Sea Wall, Royal William Victualling Yard
- Statutory Address:
- FIRESTONE BAY SEA WALL, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378548
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Firestone Bay Sea Wall, Royal William Victualling Yard
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRESTONE BAY SEA WALL, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
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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.
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:
- FIRESTONE BAY SEA WALL, ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD, CREMYLL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4629753477
Details
SX 4653 NW
740-1/66/734
PLYMOUTH
CREMYLL STREET, Stonehouse
Firestone Bay sea wall, Royal William Victualling Yard
01.05.1975
GV II
Sea wall. 1827, by Sir J Rennie Jnr, for the Victualling Board. Limestone rubble and ashlar.
Concave in plan and section. Long sea wall protecting SE side of the Yard, with a torus moulding beneath a shouldered coping to the parapet. In the centre is a segmental-arched entrance cut into the curve of the wall, formerly to a tunnel through the Rear Retaining Wall (qv) into the Yard, now blocked.
HISTORY: the wall was built partly to absorb surplus material from the Yard excavation, and to provide an alternative sea entrance. With its Cyclopean masonry, the wall forms an impressive southern perimeter to one of the finest and most complete early C19 industrial complexes in the country.
(Source: Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants: The Royal William Victualling Yard, Stonehouse: 1994: 53).
Listing NGR: SX4629753477
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 476498
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Royal William Victualling Yard, (1994), 53
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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