Navigation Tower at Walton Hall
NAVIGATION TOWER AT WALTON HALL, OLD HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165806
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Navigation Tower at Walton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- NAVIGATION TOWER AT WALTON HALL, OLD HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165806
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Navigation Tower at Walton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NAVIGATION TOWER AT WALTON HALL, OLD HALL LANE
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:
- NAVIGATION TOWER AT WALTON HALL, OLD HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Frinton and Walton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2626023638
Details
TM 22 SE
4/88
6/50
FRINTON AND WALTON
OLD HALL LANE,
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE
Navigation tower at Walton Hall. (Formerly listed as Walton Hall)
II
Navagation tower incorporating a dwelling, attached to a derelict house.
Not of special architectural interest. C18. Brick built, mostly plastered.
A tall square building with a flat roof. Chimney stack to west wall.
Probably 3 storeys. 2 windows to upper storey of east wall and single windows
to north and west walls. Limited viewing at time of resurvey as the buildig is
enclosed by barbed wire. The tower was formerly used as a lead light with
Naze Tower g,v 4/96 to guide vessels through the Goldmer Gap. Towers are shown
on a map by Richard Blome 1673 and this map was based on maps by Saxon 1576 and
Norden 1594. The Tower Block is clearly visible on the Chapman and Andre map
of 1777.
Listing NGR: TM2626023638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 119937
- 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.
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