Torbay Council

Listed building outline: South Pier Including Former Barking Oven, Torquay Harbour 390452

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South Pier Including Former Barking Oven, Torquay Harbour 390452

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.525187 50.459176,-3.525195 50.459188,-3.525226...
• entry-date: 1994-05-02
• listed-building: 1202955
• name: South Pier Including Former Barking Oven, Torquay Harbour
• notes: South Pier. Part of the harbour improvements carried out 1803-1806 for Sir Lawrence Palk initially to the designs of Rennie but completed under the direction of Dr Henry Beake, a national authority on financial matters (Pevsner). Local grey limestone rubble. The South Pier projects east from Victoria Parade. HISTORY: Russell quotes from Beake's correspondence with the Palk solicitor, in which he was critical of Rennie's design and work: badly planned, shamefully executed, with no proper super-intendence and no regard to the expense; but with great possible care to make it as neat as possible to the eye with a useless waste of labour. (Percy Russell: A History of Torquay: Torquay: 1960-: 74-77; The Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 854). Listing NGR: SX9177763273
• reference: 390452
• start-date: 1994-05-02