Description

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

SS7149 THE ESPLANADE, Lynmouth
858-1/4/88 (North side)
19/07/50 The Pier
(Formerly Listed as:
LYNTON
THE ESPLANADE
The Quay)

GV II

Pier, part of general quay construction. Late C18 or early
C19, badly damaged by floods 1952, rebuilt 1954. Rubble and
dressed granite, asphalt paving. A short length of vertical
quay wall, projecting NE from the junction of The Esplanade
with Lynmouth Street. The wall on the outer, NW side is in
roughly squared granite blocks, brought to a weathered and
rounded flush granite parapet approx 1.5m high, returning
across the end, and containing the path, which passes under
the Rhenish Tower (qv), and has tubular railings to the SE
side. From a broader platform raised on 2 steps at the street
end is a long ramp, and beyond the Tower a flight of 20 steps
set into the wall.

Listing NGR: SS7227649683

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496903

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]