Baste Walls is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. Defensive structure. 1 related planning application.
Baste Walls
- WRENN ID
- idle-beam-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1978
- Type
- Defensive structure
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
- 5180 SOUTH STREET (North Side) Baste Walls SX 8060 SW 1/215
II
- Late C14 southern circuit of the Totnes Town wall (see Eastgate, High street). The Baste Wall was extensively repaired in circa 1639. The remains are sited along the centre of South Street and consist of the outer face of the curtain wall built of random Devonian limestone rubble. Modern parapet. It extends from opposite No 3 to a point west of NO 13. There are breaks in the wall for modern steps opposite Leechwell. Lane and for a ramp by the Civic Hall near the site of the medieval Shambles Gate. No 10 South Street (qv) may originally have been a defensive tower on the circuit of the wall, like that possibly at the rear of No 2 High Street (qv). The siting of the Baste Walls suggests that the northern raised section of South Street may originally have been a rampart walk.
Listing NGR: SX8014360351
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