PILL BOX AT NZ 139983

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370661
Date first listed:: 31-May-1991
List Entry Name:: PILL BOX AT NZ 139983
Statutory Address:: PILL BOX AT NZ 139983

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370661
Date first listed:: 31-May-1991
List Entry Name:: PILL BOX AT NZ 139983
Statutory Address 1:: PILL BOX AT NZ 139983

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PILL BOX AT NZ 139983

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Longhorsley
National Grid Reference:: NZ 13917 98308

Details

The following item shall be added:

LONGHORSLEY NZ 19 NW 1/250 Pill Box at NZ 139983 II Pill Box. 1940. Concrete. Elongated hexagonal plan. Flat roof. Single storey, partly below ground level. Elongated front has 3 rifle embrasures with a single machine gun embrasure to each chamfered side front. Rear front has 2 rifle embrasures and a protected door. This pill box was constructed as part of the Coquet Line of defense against German invasion during the 2nd World War.

Listing NGR: NZ1391798308

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 238483
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.