Five Dolphin Lamp Posts on Embankment Between the Square and Rock Park
FIVE DOLPHIN LAMP POSTS ON EMBANKMENT BETWEEN THE SQUARE AND ROCK PARK, TAW VALE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385347
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Five Dolphin Lamp Posts on Embankment Between the Square and Rock Park
- Statutory Address:
- FIVE DOLPHIN LAMP POSTS ON EMBANKMENT BETWEEN THE SQUARE AND ROCK PARK, TAW VALE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385347
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Five Dolphin Lamp Posts on Embankment Between the Square and Rock Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIVE DOLPHIN LAMP POSTS ON EMBANKMENT BETWEEN THE SQUARE AND ROCK PARK, TAW VALE
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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:
- FIVE DOLPHIN LAMP POSTS ON EMBANKMENT BETWEEN THE SQUARE AND ROCK PARK, TAW VALE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5598132795
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5532 TAW VALE
684-1/4/228 (West side)
25/03/77 Five dolphin lamp posts on
embankment between The Square and
Rock Park
(Formerly Listed as:
TAW VALE
(West side)
5 Dolphin lamp standards...parapet
wall adj River Taw betw'n Square &
Rock Park)
GV II
5 cast-iron lamp standards on stone pedestals. Probably mid
C19. Limestone ashlar pedestals, oblong in section with
moulded caps; red sandstone panels front and back, except
where these have been replaced with electric light fittings.
Iron lamp standards have 2 dolphins intertwined round the stem
of a plant. On the base is moulded COALBROOKDALE. Tops have
been replaced in late C20.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Taw Vale was cut through in 1846.
`Coalbrookdale' was the celebrated Coalbrookdale Company,
founded by Abraham Darby at Ironbridge, Shropshire, in 1708.
This design was made for the Victoria and Albert Embankments
in London 1865-70.
Listing NGR: SS5598132795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485809
- 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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