Naze Tower
Naze Tower, The Naze
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1165846
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Naze Tower
- Statutory Address:
- Naze Tower, The Naze
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1165846
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Naze Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- Naze Tower, The Naze
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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:
- Naze Tower, The Naze
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:
- TM 26486 23539
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
TM 22 SE
4/96
FRINTON AND WALTON
THE NAZE,
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE
Naze Tower
21.6.84
II*
Navigation Tower. Dated 1720 for Trinity House. Plum coloured brick. Octagonal of three reducing stages with clasping buttresses to angles. C19/C20 upper stage. Moulded brick plinth with 1979 concrete plinth below. Third stage with two upper roundheaded window openings, one now blocked and three windows above second stage, two now blocked. Two round headed windows to second stage and a single window to first stage. C20 double vertically boarded doors, concrete lintel over. A lead plaque over doorway relates "Trinity House 1720".
Internally the tower has several storeys reached by an iron spiral staircase. Iron framework to top section. Designed to serve with Walton Hall Tower q.v. 4/88 as a guide to vessels through the Goldmer Gap and also with a light in Suffolk to lead into the Suffolk/Essex border rivers.
Listing NGR: TM2648623539
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 119945
- 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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