Chatley Semaphore Tower
CHATLEY SEMAPHORE TOWER, TELEGRAPH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286699
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Chatley Semaphore Tower
- Statutory Address:
- CHATLEY SEMAPHORE TOWER, TELEGRAPH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286699
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chatley Semaphore Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHATLEY SEMAPHORE TOWER, TELEGRAPH HILL
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:
- CHATLEY SEMAPHORE TOWER, TELEGRAPH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Elmbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 08942 58506
Details
TQ 05 NE
374/7/413
BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE
Cobham
TELEGRAPH HILL
Chatley Semaphore Tower
(Formerly listed as Semaphore House, Chatley Lane)
14.8.53
II*
Semaphore tower. 1822; restored after fire-damage 1989. Red brick in Flemish bond; stone coping to parapet of tower hiding flat roof; hipped Welsh slate roof to porch and kitchen wing; brick chimneys.
Octagonal tower of five storeys with basement; square porch on north side; kitchen wing of one storey and basement, one bay, on south side. Tower: deep plinth; plat band over ground floor and below parapet; alternate faces of tower recessed; windows to entrance and alternate sides, the rear side having stack and other sides blind windows. Windows have 1989 12-pane sashes, projecting ashlar cills and guaged brick arches. Rising from roof, 1989 replica semaphore mast. Porch, up flight of five replacement stone steps with plain railings, has 1989 6-panel door and side-windows. Kitchen wing: 6-pane 1989 basement windows; 12-pane sash on west side; 1989 door on gable end; rebuilt impost band and brickwork above.
Interior: gutted by fire 1984 and restored. One re-installed original fireplace (in "parlour"). The tower went out of use as a signalling tower in 1847, after which it was used as domestic accommodation.
An unusually fine example of the early C19 telegraph-signalling stations and the only surviving tower type.
Listing NGR: TQ0894258506
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286982
- 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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