Codger Fort
CODGER FORT, B6342
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371062
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Codger Fort
- Statutory Address:
- CODGER FORT, B6342
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371062
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Codger Fort
- Statutory Address 1:
- CODGER FORT, B6342
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:
- CODGER FORT, B6342
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rothley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 04456 90113
Details
ROTHLEY B 6342 NZ 09 SW (East side) 12/58 Codger Fort (formerly listed as 21.10.53 Cadger's Fort or Cadger Castle) II
Folly c.1770 by Thomas Wright for Sir Walter Blackett. Large blocks of roughly- dressed stone. A triangular bastion c.30 yards long with a square-plan projection at the apex. The wall is c.8 ft. high, with 16 gun loops. The front of the square projection has 3 crenellations.
The wall ends in 2 turrets c.6 ft. square with doorways on inner returns, rough projecting cornices and rough, stone pyramidal roofs. They are c.15 ft. high.
The fort stands on cliffs in a dramatic position and was formerly thought to be a defence of c.1746 against possible Jacobite invasion. However, a design of 1769 signed by Thomas Wright of Durham, and held at Wallington seems to disprove this.
J. Macaulay: The Gothick Revival 1745-1845: 1975 BLACKIE, LONDON AND GLASGOW. TYNE & WEAR COUNTY COUNCIL MUSEUMS: Capability Brown and the Northern Landscape: Exhibition Catalogue: 1983.
Listing NGR: NZ0445690113
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236299
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Capability Brown and the Northern Landscape Exhibition Catalogue, (1983)
Macauley, J, The Gothick Revival 1745-1845, (1975)
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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