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The Breakwater

A Grade II Listed Building in Bude, Cornwall

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Latitude: 50.8305 / 50°49'49"N

Longitude: -4.5558 / 4°33'20"W

OS Eastings: 220111

OS Northings: 106549

OS Grid: SS201065

Mapcode National: GBR K1.WZPX

Mapcode Global: FRA 16BX.4XL

Plus Code: 9C2QRCJV+5M

Entry Name: The Breakwater

Listing Date: 9 September 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1279104

English Heritage Legacy ID: 64738

ID on this website: 101279104

Location: Crooklets, Cornwall, EX23

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Bude-Stratton

Built-Up Area: Bude

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Bude Haven

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


SS 2006 - 2106 BUDE-STRATTON BUDE

11/157 The Breakwater
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GV II

Breakwater. 1839-43 built by George Casebourne, engineer to the Bude Harbour and
Canal Company to a design by James Walker. Stone rubble. Low deeply battered
wall standing four feet above the high water mark of spring tides forming the
harbour wall. The present structure replaces the 1819 breakwater and pier built
for the Company and destroyed by a storm in 1838. Helen Harris and Monica Ellis,
The Bude Canal (1972).


Listing NGR: SS2011106549

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