LITTLE DENNIS BLOCKHOUSE, PENDENNIS CASTLE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1270099
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Apr-1996
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE DENNIS BLOCKHOUSE, PENDENNIS CASTLE, CASTLE DRIVE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE DENNIS BLOCKHOUSE, PENDENNIS CASTLE, CASTLE DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Falmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 82740 31546
Details
FALMOUTH
SW83SW CASTLE DRIVE
843-1/2/46 Little Dennis Blockhouse, Pendennis
23/01/73 Castle
(Formerly Listed as:
Little Dennis Blockhouse)
GV I
Blockhouse of castle. 1540-1545 as part of Henry VIII`s
coastal defences, dismantled in 1654. Killas rubble with
granite dressings, built into bedrock on the landward side;
curved merlons to battlements on seaward side; roofless,
originally lead; rubble stack beside staircase. D-shaped plan
with very thick walls; slightly-projecting stair turret to one
corner, doorway recessed to other corner. 4-centred arched
doorway; the main gun port with flanking openings facing
across the estuary and another gun port facing out to sea.
INTERIOR: chamfered flat-headed fireplace; to the opposite
wall a large 4-centred arch to splayed and ribbed gun station,
with a blocked smoke vent above; a smaller gun station at
right angles to this; the drum of newel stair left of the
fireplace; large beam sockets and a coped parapet walk.
Listing NGR: SW8274031546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460094
- 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.
End of official listing
