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Latitude: 50.078 / 50°4'40"N
Longitude: -5.7045 / 5°42'16"W
OS Eastings: 135060
OS Northings: 26341
OS Grid: SW350263
Mapcode National: GBR DX9G.V4D
Mapcode Global: VH05M.29MK
Plus Code: 9C2P37HW+66
Entry Name: Breakwater, Adjoining Slipway and Retaining Walls
Listing Date: 15 December 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1311214
English Heritage Legacy ID: 69895
ID on this website: 101311214
Location: Sennen Cove, Cornwall, TR19
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Sennen
Built-Up Area: Sennen Cove
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Sennen
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SENNEN SENNEN COVE
SW 32 NE
4/358 Breakwater, adjoining slipway and
- retaining walls
GV II
Breakwater, including adjoining slipway and retaining walls. Datestone 1908 on
breakwater. Built with money raised by public subscriptions raised by the "untiring
efforts" of Colonel H.W. Williams of St Ives, J.P._. Unhewn rockfaced granite
reinforced with concrete lacing on top the width of the- wall. Breakwater is of
granite rubble with granite dressings. Retaining walls are of roughly-hewn
vertically-set granite blocks.
Breakwater is straight on plan with curved end to deflect the prevailing waves. At
the landward end are adjoining retaining walls fronting a quay of former complex of
fishery buildings (the present car park). A wide slipway runs at an angle down to
the beach from this quay. The beach inside the breakwater is free of surface rocks,
probably cleared when the quay was erected.
Listing NGR: SW3506026341
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