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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Official list entry

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.