FORT HOUSE

FORT HOUSE, A193

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1154951
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: FORT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FORT HOUSE, A193

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Date:: 2003-03-03
Reference:: IOE01/09958/31
Rights:: © Mr Kenneth Robinson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1154951
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: FORT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FORT HOUSE, A193

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:: FORT HOUSE, A193

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Seaton Valley
National Grid Reference:: NZ 34221 75906

Details

SEATON SLUICE A 193 NZ 37 NW NZ 342759 (East side, off) Hartley 5/102 Fort House GV II* House, incorporating control tower of fort c.1917. Tower concrete. Octagonal tower with battered sides and small windows below slightly-overhanging parapet.

The tower carried the rangefinders for Robert's Battery, the northern of the two Tyne Turrets, which was situated c.250 metres to the north-north-east. The battery was constructed in 1917 and dismantled in 1924.

Listed for historical interest; the later C20 additions around the lower part of the tower, making up the greater part of the house, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ3422175906

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Legacy System number:: 236066
Legacy System:: LBS

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