MARTELLO TOWER NO 23

MARTELLO TOWER NO 23, HYTHE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061132
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: MARTELLO TOWER NO 23
Statutory Address:: MARTELLO TOWER NO 23, HYTHE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061132
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: MARTELLO TOWER NO 23
Statutory Address 1:: MARTELLO TOWER NO 23, HYTHE ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MARTELLO TOWER NO 23, HYTHE ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Dymchurch
National Grid Reference:: TR 11260 30456

Details

TR 113 304 DYMCHURCH HYTHE ROAD (east side)

4/65 Martello Tower No.23

II

Martello Tower, 1806. Brick covered with cement render. Circular, slightly tapering tower about 30 feet high. Said to have walls 5½-6 feet thick. Project- ing cement rendered stone coping to shallow domed roof. 2 recessed glazing bar sashes, one to north and one to south with cills about 12 feet up. Small grilles below towards base. Vertical door to west with cill about 10 feet up, with proud architrave and segmental head. T-shaped recess under cill surrounded by continuation of architrave of door. No external steps at time of re-survey. Plaque over doorway. Interior: not inspected, but said to have central brick pillar with vaulted arches, magazine on ground floor and 2 rooms as quarters for garrison above. One of a series built in 1806 as gunposts against a possible Napoleonic invasion. Stands immediately behind sea wall. See also Dymchurch Road (east side), Martello Tower No. 25 and High Street (east side), Martello Tower No. 24.

Listing NGR: TR1051029990

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Legacy System number:: 175523
Legacy System:: LBS

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