MARTELLO TOWER (NO 19)

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116520
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: MARTELLO TOWER (NO 19)
Statutory Address:: MARTELLO TOWER (NO 19)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116520
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: MARTELLO TOWER (NO 19)
Statutory Address 1:: MARTELLO TOWER (NO 19)

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MARTELLO TOWER (NO 19)

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 13914 32912

Details

1. 1253 THE RANGES

Martello Tower (No 19) TR 13 SW 8/78C

II

2. Erected in 1806 as part of the coastal defence system against an invasion from Napoleonic France. Built of brick with a coating of cement on the outside. The walls are 5½ to 6 ft thick. It is built around a centre column 5 ft thick and consists of 2 storeys with a flat roof as a gun platform.

Listing NGR: TR1555734372

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 175169
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.