Golden Hill Fort
GOLDEN HILL FORT, MILITARY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1291516
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Golden Hill Fort
- Statutory Address:
- GOLDEN HILL FORT, MILITARY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1291516
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Golden Hill Fort
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOLDEN HILL FORT, MILITARY ROAD
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:
- GOLDEN HILL FORT, MILITARY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Freshwater
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 33857 87862
Details
FRESHWATER
SZ38NW MILITARY ROAD 1354-0/4/214 Golden Hill Fort
I
Former fort now museum and shops. 1863-1872. A fortified barracks with guns on the roof which covered the rear of 4 coast batteries and accommodated their garrisons in peacetime. Hexagonal building approched by a brick lined tunnel and bridge over a ditch. 2 storeys red brick in English bond with stone coping and some brick dressings. Internally on 3 sides there are 1st floor cambered arches with 2 sashes and doorcases with fanlights and sashes to ground floor. 2 storey cast iron balconies. Other 3 sides have sashes with some having round-headed arches. The building accommodated 8 officers and 128 men, and had its own hospital. It mounted 6 guns on the roof and 40 pounder breach loaders at each angle on an iron traversing platform. Roof had ammunition recesses. (Anthony Cantwell and Peter Sprack: The Needles Defences).
Listing NGR: SZ3385787862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393103
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cantwell, A, Sprack, P, The Needles Batteries Isle of Wight, (1981)
The International Journal of Fortification and Military Architecture in The International Journal of Fortification and Military Architecture, Vol. 13, (1985), 69
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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