Burnmouth Harbour Ayton, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Burnmouth Harbour has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 330190 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 11
- Canmore ID
- 60186
- Category
- B
- Name
- Burnmouth Harbour
- Parish
- Ayton
- County
- Scottish Borders
- Easting
- 395881
- Northing
- 660948
- Date Listed
- 28 September 1999
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Early to earlier 19th century; pier extended and beacon added D & T Stevenson, 1876; W breakwater constructed D & T Stevenson, 1879; inner basin constructed 1959. Enclosed harbour comprising 800ft, near L-plan pier to E with continuous parapet to E side; steps and beacon in place to NW. Straight pier projecting from main pier and later L-plan pier projecting from shore to form inner basin to SW. 325ft, angled breakwater to NW, enclosing outer basin. Predominantly squared and coursed, tooled sandstone walls (heavily rendered in part); rendered L-plan pier to SW. Plain iron bollards line concrete walkways.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Dramatically set at the foot of a steep decline, Burnmouth Harbour retains both architectural and historic interest. Originally comprising the L-plan pier which now forms the E side of the inner basin, initial building costs are recorded at ?1,600 (GAZETTEER). Later redevelopment resulted in the extension of the main pier, the building of the W breakwater and the addition of a beacon (completed by 1879 at a cost of ?6,296), and the formation of an inner basin to the SW in 1959. Fundamentally intact and still in use, the harbour is the most significant built structure in this fishing village. Drawings held in the National Map Library show the initial extension of the main pier was proposed by D & T Stevenson in 1858, although work did not begin until the mid 1870s. Further plans of works proposed to be carried out under the General Pier & Harbour Acts, 1893 (also by Stevenson) show an extension to the N of the already extended pier. No trace of this can be seen, indicating the plans were never executed.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
National Map Library, drawings by D & T Stevenson, 1858-1893. Ordnance Survey map, 1860 (original pier evident). RUTHERFURD'S SOUTHERN COUNTIES' REGISTER AND DIRECTORY (1866, reprinted 1990) p596. F H Groome ORDNANCE GAZETTEER (1882) p202. Ordnance Survey map, 1899 (extended pier and breakwater evident). J Hume THE INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND, Vol 1 (1976) p74. NMRS photographic records.
