South Quay, Including South East Side of Carnsew Dock is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. Quay.

South Quay, Including South East Side of Carnsew Dock

WRENN ID
south-stair-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 January 1988
Type
Quay
Address
South Quay, Including South East Side of Carnsew Dock, Hayle
OS grid reference
SW 556 376
Coordinates
50.18796, -5.42491
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South Quay, including the south-east side of Carnsew Dock, is a Grade II listed structure built around 1819 for Harvey and Company, specifically Henry Harvey. The quay walls are constructed from granite and killas rubble, granite ashlar, copper slag blocks, and granite dressings. They enclose three sides of a peninsular wharf, with the long side facing north-east, forming one side of a long narrow harbour. The walls are scalloped in plan, likely to allow boats to dock alongside. The north-west wall is part of Carnsew Dock, which was designed to enable the periodic sluicing of accumulated silt by releasing a large volume of dammed water. The walls are slightly battered and feature dressed granite copings. A ceremonial opening of the sluices took place on December 27, 1834, attended by the mine's adventurers and other customers and friends of the Company, who were invited to breakfast at The White Hart Hotel.

Local climate

South Quay, Including South East Side of Carnsew Dock receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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