Martello Tower
MARTELLO TOWER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269724
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Martello Tower
- Statutory Address:
- MARTELLO TOWER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269724
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Martello Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARTELLO TOWER
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:
- MARTELLO TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldeburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 46295 54908
Details
ALDEBURGH
TM45SE SLAUGHDON 837-1/3/44 Martello Tower 27/02/50
II*
Martello tower. 1808-10 by Royal Engineers to design of Colonel Twiss and Captain Ford: sold 1932 and converted to house: commandeered 1940 as military watch tower: restored 1973. Red brick on granite plinth and with ashlar dressings. 4-gun tower, quatrefoil in plan and surrounded by deep brick moat. EXTERIOR: entrance to west set in stone reveals and reached by elevated timber walkway. In each of 4 lobes is one ashlar-faced round-headed window. INTERIOR: not inspected. Eastern segment of the moat has been eroded by the sea. Tower is the most northerly and largest of those built during the Napoleonic War. Scheduled Ancient Monument, No. 106 (Kent P: Fortifications of East Anglia: Lavenham: 1988-: 145-147; BOE: Pevsner N: Suffolk, 2nd Edition: Harmondsworth: 1974-: 73).
Listing NGR: TM4629554908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460488
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kent, P, Fortifications of East Anglia, (1988), 145-147
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 73
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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