Oldest of the two surviving slips that once served the commercial needs of the town, the site is a well preserved example of a post-medieval slip compromising of a cambered cobbled slipway some 25m long by 2.6m wide, sloping at an angle of 10 degrees and dropping from a height of 7.66m OD to 4.0m OD within 20m. The final 5.0m of the slipway forms a flight of shallow steps down to the low-tide mark in the River Wye. The structure is bounded to the south by a dwarf wall and to the north by a paved edge constructed of large recumbent stones some 0.5m in average length.
Source: Cadw scheduling description 09/11/2004 FF