Firestone Bay Sea Wall, Royal William Victualling Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Sea wall.
Firestone Bay Sea Wall, Royal William Victualling Yard
- WRENN ID
- worn-transept-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Sea wall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SX 4653 NW 740-1/66/734
PLYMOUTH CREMYLL STREET, Stonehouse Firestone Bay sea wall, Royal William Victualling Yard 01.05.1975
GV II
Sea wall. 1827, by Sir J Rennie Jnr, for the Victualling Board. Limestone rubble and ashlar. Concave in plan and section. Long sea wall protecting SE side of the Yard, with a torus moulding beneath a shouldered coping to the parapet. In the centre is a segmental-arched entrance cut into the curve of the wall, formerly to a tunnel through the Rear Retaining Wall (qv) into the Yard, now blocked. HISTORY: the wall was built partly to absorb surplus material from the Yard excavation, and to provide an alternative sea entrance. With its Cyclopean masonry, the wall forms an impressive southern perimeter to one of the finest and most complete early C19 industrial complexes in the country. (Source: Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants: The Royal William Victualling Yard, Stonehouse: 1994: 53).
Listing NGR: SX4629753477
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