Andrew's Wall
ANDREW'S WALL, MEADOW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390594
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Andrew's Wall
- Statutory Address:
- ANDREW'S WALL, MEADOW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390594
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Andrew's Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANDREW'S WALL, MEADOW LANE
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:
- ANDREW'S WALL, MEADOW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Salthouse
- National Grid Reference:
- TG0850943755
Details
1233/0/10011
02-SEP-03
SALTHOUSE
MEADOW LANE
Andrew's Wall
II
Retaining wall, probably a former quay. Probably early C17 (1649 terminus ante quem). Whole flints with some erratics and occasional highly fired bricks; some white knapped flint with galleting to western end. Extremely hard mortar perhaps indicating an effective pozzolanic additive. About 40 metres long with a small return at right angles at its western end. Some of the facing above ground has fallen to reveal mortar rich corework with a marked lift line. Rear face obscured by land which is retained by it. The returned west end is of neatly knapped and galletted flintwork. The return is of the depth of a buttress and has an off-set forming a plinth. The angle between the wall and the return is filled with an oblique fillet of masonry.
HISTORY. 1649 is a 'terminus ante quem' for this very unusual wall because it is indicated on Hunt's map of Salthouse of 1648 and 1649. Here the wall, the water channel leading to it across the marsh from the sea, and the piece of marsh in front of it are all indicated as belonging to 'Andrew'. It is specifically named Andrew's Wall, the length of it is indicated and it is the only structure shown for a considerable distance around. It is very probably a surviving quay and concerned with shipping and commerce from an early period on this stretch of the north Norfolk coast.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490578
- 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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