The Goat Walk and Wall
The Goat Walk and Wall, Topsham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1428812
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Goat Walk and Wall
- Statutory Address:
- The Goat Walk and Wall, Topsham
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1428812
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Goat Walk and Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Goat Walk and Wall, Topsham
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:
- The Goat Walk and Wall, Topsham
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX9692387320
Details
871/0/10192
TOPSHAM,
The Goat Walk and Wall
GV II
1846 by Francis Davy, shipbuilder; the raised pavement added in 1910-11. Local grey limestone rubble with semi-circular stone coping; the surface of the pavement is later C20 concrete. A length of wall, about 260 metres long, at high water level of the beach. In 1910 an application to build the raised pavement was approved by the Board of Trade, to provide access across the beach at high water. The wall appears to have been raised at this time, it varies in height and there is a gateway with square piers with caps, a lintel and an iron gate.
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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