Chudleigh Fort
CHUDLEIGH FORT, CHUDLEIGH AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208657
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Chudleigh Fort
- Statutory Address:
- CHUDLEIGH FORT, CHUDLEIGH AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208657
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Chudleigh Fort
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHUDLEIGH FORT, CHUDLEIGH AVENUE
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:
- CHUDLEIGH FORT, CHUDLEIGH AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bideford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 45883 26376
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 CHUDLEIGH AVENUE, East-The-Water 842-1/7/258 (North side) 08/11/49 Chudleigh Fort
II
Civil War fortification, now standing in a public park. 1642; much rebuilt in C19. Five-sided platform with stone-rubble retaining wall and parapet, the latter containing 14 apertures for cannon. On south side is a granite plaque inscribed in lead lettering: FORT ERECTED BY PARLIAMENTARY FORCES COMMANDED BY MAJOR-GEN. CHUDLEIGH. APRIL 1642. The fort now contains 7 old cannon on wheeled wooden gun-carriages. According to an early/mid C19 account printed in Bideford: 'At present it is surrounded by a slight stone wall, turretted on the top, built by its present owner J. S. Ley, Esq., of Durrant House, Northam.' Stands on high ground overlooking the River Torridge. (A Short Sketch of Interesting Scenery & Hist Records of Bideford: Bideford (printer Wilson): P.5).
Listing NGR: SS4588326376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375784
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
A Short Sketch of Interesting Scenery and Historical Records of Bideford,
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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