Survey Data
Reg No
21517004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Building misc
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
156890, 156710
Date Recorded
17/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway to dock yard, erected in 1853, and repositioned at its current location, angled to O'Curry Street, during the twentieth century. Three square-plan ashlar limestone piers with chamfered plinth base and stringcourse beneath shallow pyramidal capping stone forming two gate openings with mild steel gates. Curving rubble limestone plinth walls supporting mild steel railings to east and west are of recent origins. A commemorative plaque to one pier, announces the date of renaming the piers after Ted Russell.
Appraisal
This fine set of nineteenth-century piers have been repositioned and once formed a pedestrian gate and vehicular gateway. The gates give access to this historic dock yard which retains a harbour master's house, a fine Italianate clock tower and a graving dock. The competition for the floating dock was held on the 26th September 1853.