Pill Box at NU 059015

PILL BOX AT NU 059015

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1052196
Date first listed:
31-May-1991
List Entry Name:
Pill Box at NU 059015
Statutory Address:
PILL BOX AT NU 059015
Pill Box at Nu 059015, Rothbury
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1052196
Date first listed:
31-May-1991
List Entry Name:
Pill Box at NU 059015
Statutory Address 1:
PILL BOX AT NU 059015

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PILL BOX AT NU 059015

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Rothbury
National Grid Reference:
NU0589601547

Details

ROTHBURY
NU 00 SE
25/326 Pill Box at
NU 059015
II

Pill Box. 1940. Concrete. Elongated hexagonal plan. Flat roof.
Single storey, partly below ground level. Elongated front has 3
rifle embrasures with a single machine gun embrasure to each
chamfered side front. Rear front has 2 rifle embrasures and a
protected door. This pill box was constructed as part of the
Coquet Line of defense against German invasion during the 2nd
World War.


Listing NGR: NU0589601547

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
361439
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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