Castle Quay With 12 Bollards From And Including Steps To Slipway At Civic Centre End

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SS5533SE 684-1/7/81 31/08/88

BARNSTAPLE CASTLE QUAY with 12 bollards, from and including steps, to slipway at Civic Centre end

GV II

Quay fronting River Taw. Probably late C19. Stone rubble with kerb of squared granite blocks secured by iron ties; some blocks have been replaced in concrete, mainly opposite the old Town Station where the sand dredgers unload. At SE end a flight of granite steps leads down to the water. Surface of quay at NW end asphalted; SE end tiled in 1986. 12 cast-iron bollards, spaced out along whole length of quay, all but the 9th from the SE with shaped tops; 6 of the bollards have the numbers 1, 7, 2, 5, 4, and 6 moulded on the top (in that order). The warehouses that formerly lined the quay on the far side of Commercial Road have mostly disappeared, but a range of former bonded warehouses at the SE end are listed as part of Queen Anne's Court in Castle Street (qv).

Listing NGR: SS5556733167