Quay Walls is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1994. Quay walls.
Quay Walls
- WRENN ID
- seventh-lantern-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1994
- Type
- Quay walls
- Address
- Quay Walls, Bayards Cove, Dartmouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 878 510
- Coordinates
- 50.34847, -3.57769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The quay walls in Dartmouth date from the 15th and 16th centuries, with later repairs and alterations. They were extended southwards in 1839 to connect with Bearscove Castle. Constructed from local limestone rubble, the walls feature larger blocks as coping stones. The vertical stone retaining wall rises from the estuary to the old cobbled quayside, stretching from Bearscove Castle at the southern end to a northern return that serves as the platform for Island House, located at No. 25 Lower Street. The quay includes a flight of granite steps leading down to the estuary, situated opposite No. 7, Port View House. This quay was the main one until the New Quay was built in the late 16th century, and there is evidence of a stone quay existing here by the 16th century.
Local climate
Quay Walls receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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