Little Dennis Blockhouse, Pendennis Castle

LITTLE DENNIS BLOCKHOUSE, PENDENNIS CASTLE, CASTLE DRIVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1270099
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:
Little Dennis Blockhouse, Pendennis Castle
Statutory Address:
LITTLE DENNIS BLOCKHOUSE, PENDENNIS CASTLE, CASTLE DRIVE
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Date:
2002-04-11
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1270099
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Apr-1996
List Entry Name:
Little Dennis Blockhouse, Pendennis Castle
Statutory Address 1:
LITTLE DENNIS BLOCKHOUSE, PENDENNIS CASTLE, CASTLE DRIVE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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