THE FORT ON THE LAKE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120488
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: THE FORT ON THE LAKE
Statutory Address:: THE FORT ON THE LAKE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120488
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: THE FORT ON THE LAKE
Statutory Address 1:: THE FORT ON THE LAKE

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:: THE FORT ON THE LAKE

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Coombe Keynes
National Grid Reference:: SY 86094 83930

Details

SY 88SE 8/95 COOMBE KEYNES

The Fort, on the Lake

II

Folly. Probably c1851. Rubble stone walls with brick dressings, and flat roof. Circular battlemented tower on a circular platform built out into the lake. Tower of one storey, with four openings with four-centred arched heads - that on the landward side with doors, the others shuttered. String courses above openings and below battlements. Circular platform paved with square tiles; low stone boundary wall to this, raised on the landward side to form an archway with iron gates. Brass cannon formerly on platform now removed and stored. Picturesque feature of the Lake.

Listing NGR: SY8609483930

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 108553
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.