Lifeboat House With Slipway On Foreshore

The lifeboat house with slipway, built around 1870, is located on the foreshore at Clovelly. It is constructed from coursed rubble with freestone dressings and features a slate gabled roof with coped verges and copings on the parapets at the sides. The slipway is made of large, roughly-hewn rubble blocks. The building has a rectangular plan with a large door opening in the gable end facing the sea, leading to an inclined slipway that descends into the harbour, visible above the waterline at low tide. On the seaward side, there are a pair of 20th-century iron-clad sliding doors on runners, which have altered the original opening to accommodate a larger lifeboat. Above the doors, there is a bullseye window with four panes and a central roundel. The interior has not been inspected. The building no longer houses the current lifeboat, which is now moored in Bideford Bay.