South Pier Including Former Barking Oven, Torquay Harbour is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Pier.
South Pier Including Former Barking Oven, Torquay Harbour
- WRENN ID
- other-cellar-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Pier
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TORQUAY
SX9063 (East side) 885-1/17/481 South Pier, Torquay Harbour
GV II
South Pier. Part of the harbour improvements carried out 1803-1806 for Sir Lawrence Palk initially to the designs of Rennie but completed under the direction of Dr Henry Beake, a national authority on financial matters (Pevsner). Local grey limestone rubble. The South Pier projects east from Victoria Parade. HISTORY: Russell quotes from Beake's correspondence with the Palk solicitor, in which he was critical of Rennie's design and work: "badly planned, shamefully executed, with no proper super-intendence and no regard to the expense; but with great possible care to make it as neat as possible to the eye with a useless waste of labour". (Percy Russell: A History of Torquay: Torquay: 1960-: 74-77; The Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 854).
Listing NGR: SX9177763273
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