Hm Coastguard Rescue Station Including Walls, Piers, Railings At Front Approach

BRIXHAM

SX95NW BERRY HEAD ROAD, Berry Head 1946-1/2/25 (North side) 07/11/86 HM Coastguard Rescue Station inc walls, piers, railings at front approach (Formerly Listed as: BERRY HEAD ROAD Berry Head Road Rescue Station)

GV II

Rescue station. c1889. Coursed, rough-faced squared stone rubble. Slated roof. Stone chimney with entablature on rear gable. A small oblong 1-room structure at right-angles to road, set well back. 1 storey. Front has double plank doors, ribbed and with large strap-hinges. Gable has chamfered coping with kneelers; in its centre a round panel with initials BT. Rear gable has matching gable. In each side wall a window with 8-paned sashes. Flanking the approach to the building are 2 stone walls which are bonded into the building itself; flat coping and at front of each a square chamfered pier with pyramidal cap. The left wall contains an iron gate with spear-head uprights. Beyond the piers are 2 low stone walls of similar character surmounted by railings with spear-head uprights. A similar low wall and railing runs off at right-angles to the right-hand pier. Both sets of railings end in a square pier with pyramidal cap. The set to left forms part of the garden railing of No.32 Berry Head Road (qv).

Listing NGR: SX9365756738