Jetty Cliff And Bastion Including Sloping Pedestrian Pathways

CROMER

892/0/10012 Jetty Cliff and Bastion including slop 16-JUN-03 ing pedestrian pathways

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Cliff retaining wall and sloping pedestrian pathways. 1894-5. By J.C. Melliss of London for the Cromer Protection Commissioners. 2 sloping paths lead from the top east and west ends of the massive cliff retaining wall towards a small platform about a third of the way down the cliff. From this platform a western path slopes down until it meets the promenade slightly to the west of the pier (q.v.) forecourt. The eastern path slopes down until it is about two thirds of the way down the cliff, where it levels out, reverses direction and angles down to the promenade close to the pier. All the cliff wall faces are covered by carefully laid coursed flint cobbles. Edges of paths have Staffordshire blue clay kerbs and iron railings. HISTORY. This structure was built as part of a project to improve the approach to the promenade and jetty from the cliff top. The cliff wall was built out to provide more space in front of the Hotel de Paris (q.v.), which was enlarged and given a new facade in the same years. In turn they stood at the centre of the even larger project to improve the sea defences and build a pier in place of the jetty. In 1901 Douglass and Arnott, following the building of the new sea walls and pier, strengthened the cliff wall by the addition of a large bastion in the centre. This impressive wall and slopes form part of the very significant group of historic buildings and structures including the pier, the Hotel de Paris and the sea wall defences and promenade (q.v.). REFERENCE. Cromer Preservation Soc., Historic Features on the Seafront, 2003.