Landguard Fort

LANDGUARD FORT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1030415
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Landguard Fort
Statutory Address:
LANDGUARD FORT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1030415
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Landguard Fort
Statutory Address 1:
LANDGUARD FORT

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
LANDGUARD FORT

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Felixstowe
National Grid Reference:
TM 28348 31895

Details

FELIXSTOWE LANDGUARD COMMON TM 235 SE 3/26 Landguard Fort ? I Artillery fort, 1711, remodelled c1871, on site of fort of 1540-5, rebuilt 1624. C18 work in red brick, C19 build of yellow brick faced externally with granite. Irregular pentagon with angle bastions. South west side altered 1871 to form casement battery for 6 guns; semicircular gorge projected into earlier parade. North east entrance; slightly projecting brick gateway with embattled turrets. Blocked doorway, 2 upper stage loops. INTERIOR: Granite archway, keystone dated 1875. Originally built to guard Harwich Harbour. AM 113.

Listing NGR: TM2834831895

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Legacy System number:
286269
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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