Description

BRIXHAM

SX95NW BERRY HEAD ROAD, Berry Head
1946-1/2/25 (North side)
07/11/86 HM Coastguard Rescue Station inc
walls, piers, railings at front
approach
(Formerly Listed as:
BERRY HEAD ROAD
Berry Head Road Rescue Station)

GV II

Rescue station. c1889. Coursed, rough-faced squared stone
rubble. Slated roof. Stone chimney with entablature on rear
gable. A small oblong 1-room structure at right-angles to
road, set well back. 1 storey. Front has double plank doors,
ribbed and with large strap-hinges. Gable has chamfered coping
with kneelers; in its centre a round panel with initials BT.
Rear gable has matching gable. In each side wall a window with
8-paned sashes. Flanking the approach to the building are 2
stone walls which are bonded into the building itself; flat
coping and at front of each a square chamfered pier with
pyramidal cap. The left wall contains an iron gate with
spear-head uprights. Beyond the piers are 2 low stone walls of
similar character surmounted by railings with spear-head
uprights. A similar low wall and railing runs off at
right-angles to the right-hand pier. Both sets of railings end
in a square pier with pyramidal cap. The set to left forms
part of the garden railing of No.32 Berry Head Road (qv).

Listing NGR: SX9365756738

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585788

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair