Brick Tower Shot Tower
BRICK TOWER, CRANE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286731
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Brick Tower Shot Tower
- Statutory Address:
- BRICK TOWER, CRANE PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286731
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Brick Tower Shot Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRICK TOWER, CRANE PARK
- Statutory Address 2:
- SHOT TOWER, CRANE PARK
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:
- BRICK TOWER, CRANE PARK
- Statutory Address:
- SHOT TOWER, CRANE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Richmond upon Thames (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 12889 72844
Details
1. 5028 CRANE PARK
Brick Tower (Formerly listed as Shot Tower) TQ 17 SW 3/1 2.9.52
II
2. Late C18 or early C19. Tapering brick tower in English bond. Built like a tower mill. Roofed with lead. Door and lower windows have painted arches with weatherboarded spandrels and stone keystone. Interior derelict and no floors. Stands in the middle of trees, which have grown up all round, beside one of the streams into which the River Crane is here divided by dams and sluices. This one belonged to the old Hounslow Powder Mills and is the only surviving building. (The mills were in all probability the first gunpowder mills in England, dating from the time of the Battle of Crecy, 1315.) Previously incorrectly listed as a Shot Tower. Perhaps instead a grinding mill.
Listing NGR: TQ1288972844
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 205292
- 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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