MARTELLO TOWER AND BRICK LINED MOAT

MARTELLO TOWER AND BRICK LINED MOAT, MARINE PARADE WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1111520
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: MARTELLO TOWER AND BRICK LINED MOAT
Statutory Address:: MARTELLO TOWER AND BRICK LINED MOAT, MARINE PARADE WEST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1111520
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: MARTELLO TOWER AND BRICK LINED MOAT
Statutory Address 1:: MARTELLO TOWER AND BRICK LINED MOAT, MARINE PARADE WEST

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 AND BRICK LINED MOAT, MARINE PARADE WEST

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

County:: Essex
District:: Tendring (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TM 17285 14297

Details

CLACTOh-ON-SEA MARINE PARADE WEST TM 11 SE 11/11 Martello Tower and brick lined moat II Martello Tower now a Coast Guard station. Circa 1808-12. Vari-coloured brick, made at Grays, Essex. Stone parapet, rusticated stone dressings to 4 windows and a door at half height. Unlike the other Clacton Defence Towers this one had a moat, glacis and outer battery. The brick lined moat still survives, the wall being approximately 7 metres tall and the moat base 8 metres wide. Taking 4 years and built at a cost of approximately £5000 the situation was considered too unhealthy and the garrison was stationed at Weeley. Erosion by sea has claimed the battery. Kenneth Walker The History of Clacton, 1966.

Listing NGR: TM1728514297

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Legacy System number:: 119871
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Walker, K, The History of Clacton, (1966)

Legal

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