Cresswell Quay

The Quay is an irregularly three-sided structure at road level projecting about 30 m out from the road to reach the deep channel of the Cresswell River estuary. The channel of the stream called Treen Bridge Lake marks its S side. The quay is faced with stonework on the exposed faces overlooking the water and is open, apart from a low boundary wall, on the side towards the road.

The exposed faces are battered-faced retaining-walls about five metres in height, rounded at the corners, and more or less exposed according to the state of the tide. The facing of the retaining walls is of uncoursed or informally coursed local rubble sandstone. The masonry is rather insubstantial for a civil engineering structure. In places there are remnants of upright rubbing timbers fixed to the face. There is also a metal ladder. There is now no parapet, but the top of the retaining walls has been strengthened in concrete. The interior space is grassed or gravelled. At the rear, against the road, is a low stone boundary wall, evidently post-dating the industrial disuse of the quay.