Martello Tower (No 15)

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068964
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: Martello Tower (No 15)
Statutory Address:: Martello Tower (No 15)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068964
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: Martello Tower (No 15)
Statutory Address 1:: Martello Tower (No 15)

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Martello Tower (No 15)

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

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Hythe
National Grid Reference:: TR 15214 33694

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 August 2024 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

TR 13 SE 5/78B

THE RANGES Martello Tower (No 15)

II

Erected in 1806 as part of the coastal defence system against an invasion from Napoleonic France. Skin of Flemish bond facing brick set flush with the masonry coping and door surrounds in place of the usual rendered finish. The walls are 5½ to 6 ft thick. It is built around a centre column 5 ft thick and consists of two storeys with a flat roof as a gun platform.

Listing NGR: TR1521433694

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 175168
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.