The Old Life Boat House And Slip Way

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NEWQUAY Former Newquay lifeboat house and slipway

(Formerly listed as The Old Life-Boat House and Slip-way)

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Lifeboat house and slipway. A plaque on the east front of the lifeboat house indicates that the slipway was constructed in 1895 and the lifeboat house in 1899; there have been few later alterations.

MATERIALS: Rendered stone rubble. Slurried slate roof with crested ridge tiles and gable ends. Stack at the right side with brick shaft. PLAN: Rectangular lifeboat house, with double doors at the front gable-end facing the slipway. Upper room heated from a stack at the right side.

EXTERIOR: Two storeys on plinth, a symmetrical front with raking buttresses to sides: the gable is built up with stepped coped verges and spike finial. Ground floor has double doors. First floor has corbelled oriel with three-light window and hipped roof. Left side has two windows with shutters and rusticated surrounds; single-storey porch with door between the windows and upper ventilation louvre. Right side has three similar windows and ventilation louvre; brick stack to left. Rear has rusticated quoins and single light at the apex of the gable, with raised stepped coped verges and spike finial.

INTERIOR: Not inspected. SLIPWAY: The boat-house stands 10 metres west of the head of the slipway, to which it is connected by a concrete path edged by large granite curbs set flush, the full width of the doors. The slipway runs very steeply down between rock walls, from which it has been in part cut out, for a length of at least 40 metres. It is about two metres wide, with concrete surfacing, in part built up on stonework, with a continuous central cast-iron central channel, much worn, but 300mm wide and 50mm deep. This is flared at the top and has two cleats attached. On either side, at regular intervals of 1.5m, are iron cleats, very rusted, and in places covered by later concrete surfacing. The slipway is an essential part of the ensemble, and is reputed to be one of the steepest in the country.

Listing NGR: SW8008362713