Walls to Kelp Pit at SV 8925 1550

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291641
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:: Walls to Kelp Pit at SV 8925 1550
Statutory Address:: Walls to Kelp Pit at SV 8925 1550

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291641
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:: Walls to Kelp Pit at SV 8925 1550
Statutory Address 1:: Walls to Kelp Pit at SV 8925 1550

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Walls to Kelp Pit at SV 8925 1550

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tresco
National Grid Reference:: SV8925715506

Details

SV81NE 1358-0/1/115

TRESCO Walls to Kelp Pit at SV 8925 1550

II Walls to three sides of kelp pit. C18/C19. Uncoursed granite rubble, formerly with sloping sides to pit lined with flat stones.

The kelp was dried out whilst piled between layers of brushwood in shallow pits. Kelping was introduced into the islands in the late C17, and became a vitally important source of subsidiary income. It was used in the manufacture of glass, soap and bleaches.

Listing NGR: SV8925015500

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 62550
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.