Description

1.
5180 SOUTH STREET
(North Side)
Baste Walls
SX 8060 SW 1/215

II

2.
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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530153

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)