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
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 May 1975
Type
Sea wall
Address
Firestone Bay Sea Wall, Royal William Victualling Yard, Cremyll Street, City of Plymouth
OS grid reference
SX 462 534
Coordinates
50.36106, -4.16233
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Firestone Bay sea wall, located at the Royal William Victualling Yard in Plymouth, was constructed in 1827 by Sir John Rennie Junior for the Victualling Board. This sea wall is made of limestone rubble and ashlar, featuring a concave shape in both plan and section. It runs along the southeast side of the Yard and includes a torus moulding beneath a shouldered coping at the top of the parapet. In the center of the wall, there is a segmental-arched entrance that was once part of a tunnel through the Rear Retaining Wall into the Yard, although this entrance is now blocked. The wall was built to utilize surplus material from the Yard's excavation and to provide an alternative sea entrance. Its substantial masonry contributes to the impressive southern boundary of one of the finest and most complete early 19th-century industrial complexes in the country.

Local climate

Firestone Bay Sea Wall, Royal William Victualling Yard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow 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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