GROUP OF 4 CANNON AND TIDEBALL POST

GROUP OF 4 CANNON AND TIDEBALL POST, SION HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1086097
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 CANNON AND TIDEBALL POST
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 CANNON AND TIDEBALL POST, SION HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1086097
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 CANNON AND TIDEBALL POST
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 4 CANNON AND TIDEBALL POST, SION HILL

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:: GROUP OF 4 CANNON AND TIDEBALL POST, SION HILL

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

County:: Kent
District:: Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:: Ramsgate
National Grid Reference:: TR 38176 64648

Details

RAMSGATE SION HILL TR 3864 NW (south side) 13/373 Group of 4 cannon and tideball post GV II Group of 4 cannon and tide ball post. Cannon dated 27th November 1821 and engraved with Royal Harbour of Ramsgate and town Arms, with serial numbers 2.3.13, 2.3.10, 2.3.17, 2.3.15. Muzzle loaded on restored trucks set in C20 concrete seating area, with the stump of the late C18 tide-ball mast in the centre (See Busson, illus, 29+33).

Listing NGR: TR3817664648

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Legacy System number:: 172009
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Busson, C , Book of Ramsgate

Legal

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