Fort on Blyth Links
FORT ON BLYTH LINKS, LINKS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041334
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fort on Blyth Links
- Statutory Address:
- FORT ON BLYTH LINKS, LINKS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041334
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fort on Blyth Links
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORT ON BLYTH LINKS, LINKS ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORT ON BLYTH LINKS, LINKS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blyth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 32097 79310
Details
BLYTH LINKS ROAD NZ 37 NW (EAST SIDE) 5/120 Fort on Blyth Links GV II Coastal defence fort. Late C19 in origin, remodelled 1914-18; some altera- tions 1939-45. Reinforced concrete; brick. The fort, built on and partly into a sand-dune hill, consists of a pair of gun emplacements facing seawards, a magazine and shell store built into the landward face of the dune, a shelter block to the south, and a Defence Electric Light director station and blockhouse to the north. The gun emplacements are each fronted by a sloping apron of reinforced concrete, and are linked by a wall backed by a lower-level, flat-roofed shelter block; in the internal wall face at each end of the shelter are cupboards with heavy iron doors. The flat-roofed superstructure of each emplacement is a 1939-45 addition. Facing the internal wall of the shelter is the detached R.A. store with a boarded door, 2 small windows and a flat felted roof. The officers' and men's shelter (now a public convenience) is a flat-roofed rectangular building with a door and 4 windows on the south. The magazine and shell store have a front wall facing west, with 2 doorways, a boarded window and a barred 4-pane sash; two low openings above and a narrow opening on the right into the blast space surround. The director station is a 2-storey 6-sided tower with a metal-sheeted rangefinder housing on the flat top; on the west is an iron stair up to a balcony on cantilever brackets. The 5-sided blockhouse has a door and 2 boarded hatches; flat concrete roof. Between the director station and the blockhouse is a 1939-45 lookout tower.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Originally known as Fort Coulson after the Royal Engineer Captain responsible for its construction, the Link House Battery carried two 6-inch guns in World War 1. Later disused, it was returned to Blyth Corporation in 1925, but re-commissioned in World War II. Rare survival of a World War 1 coastal defence complex.
Listing NGR: NZ3209779310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236082
- 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.
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