Bovisand Harbour and Pier is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1999. Harbour and pier.
Bovisand Harbour and Pier
- WRENN ID
- fossil-hinge-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1999
- Type
- Harbour and pier
- OS grid reference
- SX 486 507
- Coordinates
- 50.3371, -4.12806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bovisand Harbour and Pier is a harbour and pier built between 1816 and 1824 by John Rennie and Joseph Whidbey, featuring an altered Defence Electric Light (searchlight) emplacement from around 1900.
The structure is made of shale and rubble infill, faced with Oreston limestone blocks and Dartmoor granite corner blocks. The searchlight itself is constructed from concrete and brick.
The harbour and pier are designed in an L-shape, facing north-west, with a short north arm or jetty extending from the demi-round north-west corner. Granite steps provide access down to the water level from the pier. The searchlight emplacement at the north-west corner has undergone significant alterations. Additionally, a late-20th century steel lookout structure attached to the north-west corner is noted as not being of special architectural or historic interest.
Local climate
Bovisand Harbour and Pier sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% 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 92% 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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