Description

FALMOUTH

SW8132NW TOWN QUAY
843-1/8/210 Custom House Quay, King Charles Quay
10/09/68 and North Quay

GV II*

Quay walls. 1670, by Peter Killigrew and some later
remodelling. Vertically-set killas dry-stone rubble, built on
quarried ledges of bed-rock on the landward side; granite
ashlar at intervals in places and granite ashlar used for the
south-east end of North Quay; granite steps, and copings
linked with iron cramps; some areas of cobbles on the quay
surface.
PLAN: North Quay has a slender hammer-head end. To the
south-east, running roughly parallel, is the longer Custom
House Quay, L-shaped on plan with its foot continuing past the
nearest extremity of North Quay so as to leave a narrow
channel but protecting the enclosed harbour. Recessed steps
near the inner west angle of North Quay, also to the seaward
side and an L-plan flight to the south-east side towards the
shore, more steps near the inner and outer east angle and the
seaward side of Custom House Quay; steps also to the seaward
side and at the north-west end of King Charles Quay which
fronts the foreshore running north-west.
HISTORY: the construction of these quays, and other C17 quays
along the Falmouth foreshore, enabled the development of this
town as a port, first rivalling the other ports of the Fal
Estuary and then becoming the most important one. Their
particular construction is said to have been copied from Dutch
examples.

Listing NGR: SW8110532609

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550143

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