The Goat Walk and Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 2003. Public walkway and wall.
The Goat Walk and Wall
- WRENN ID
- standing-paling-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 November 2003
- Type
- Public walkway and wall
- Address
- The Goat Walk and Wall, Topsham
- OS grid reference
- SX 969 873
- Coordinates
- 50.67637, -3.46021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Goat Walk and Wall is a structure built in 1846 by Francis Davy, a shipbuilder, with a raised pavement added in 1910-11. It is constructed from local grey limestone rubble and features semi-circular stone coping, while the pavement surface is made of later 20th-century concrete. The wall stretches about 260 meters long at the high water level of the beach. In 1910, the Board of Trade approved an application to build the raised pavement to provide access across the beach at high water. At this time, the wall was also raised, varying in height, and includes a gateway with square piers topped with caps, a lintel, and an iron gate.
Local climate
The Goat Walk and Wall receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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