Signal House
SIGNAL HOUSE, 41, COURT END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147735
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Signal House
- Statutory Address:
- SIGNAL HOUSE, 41, COURT END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147735
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Signal House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIGNAL HOUSE, 41, COURT END
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SIGNAL HOUSE, 41, COURT END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Rochford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Foulness
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 02477 93772
Details
FOULNESS COURT END TR 09 SW 9/110 No. 41 Signal House 29.10.86 II Cottage. Circa 1800. Timber framed and weatherboarded. Grey slate roof. Left ridge and forward off centre right gault brick chimney stacks, that to right plastered. Single storey. 2 windows, to left a 2-light casement with glazing bars, to right a small paned vertically sliding sash. There are 2 doors, each with 2 vertical upper lights, one to right the other between the windows. Pentice boards over. The frame appears to be intact with a side purlin ridge board roof. There are 6 rooms. The 2 chimney stacks have back to back fireplaces, one with a C19 cast iron grate and surround. Original dining room cupboard. A line of 28 coastal signal stations from North Foreland to Lands End was established by the Admiraltry in 1794, the line was extended to Great Yarmouth the following year and subsequently on to cover most of the coastline. A signal house is shown in the position of this building on the Map of Foulness by J. Grist 1801. There were 2 signal houses on Foulness, the other at Burwood was demolished late C19. In 1811 the Officer (Lieutenant) in occupation of this house was John Lundin. The equipment comprised a 50 foot mast with a 30 foot top mast and 30 foot crossyard from which could be displayed from 10 hoists, one red flag, one blue pendant and 4 black balls, which could be arranged through 145 combinations, each of which was related to an arbitrary signal. The signal stations were closed in 1815 at the end of the War. This is one of the very few survivors, one other presumed station is at Bradwell-on-Sea. R.W. Crump. Foulness Archaeological Society, The First lO Years, 1975-85. October 1985, unpublished May 1986.
Listing NGR: TR0247793772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 123133
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crump, R W, Foulness Archaeological Society The First 10 Years 1975-85, ()
Other
Title: Map of Foulness
Source Date: 1801
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Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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