Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Retaining wall of Patent Slip
New Quay, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in New Quay, Ceredigion, designated on 15 February 1979.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 15 February 1979
- Locality
- New Quay
- Community
- New Quay
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.21387, -4.35774
- Cadw reference
- 10769
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 194 Llangranog (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at SW side of harbour, adjoining the lifeboat house.
History
c1863.
Exterior
Long rubble stone retaining wall sloping upwards from beach to the cliff behind. Rubble stone in large roughly dressed blocks with raking parapet wall of similar material. Behind is the sloping slipway onto which ships were hauled by the patent slip mechanism installed 1863 and dismantled 1901. In 4 cavities on front wall are 4 massive iron rings with attached chains.
The slip was used principally for repairing or lengthening ships and was equipped with a cradle on iron rails.
Reason for designation
Listed as a prominent enclosing feature to S end of harbour beach, and of historical interest as part of the shipbuilding history of New Quay.
Nearby in the register
- The Slipway BuildingCommercialunder 1 mi
- South Winds and SunnycroftDomesticunder 1 mi
- South Winds and SunnycroftDomesticunder 1 mi
- Myn y MorDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.