Haile Sand Fort
HAILE SAND FORT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240990
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Haile Sand Fort
- Statutory Address:
- HAILE SAND FORT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240990
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Haile Sand Fort
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAILE SAND 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.
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:
- HAILE SAND FORT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 34912 06144
Details
TETNEY SK 30 NW HAILE SAND FORT
2A/67 II
Off-shore Fort. 1915-18 with later alterations and additions. Reinforced concrete and Brick, clad with riveted steel armour plating. Timber and steel jetty. Circular on plan with hexagonal base and balcony at sea level, plain railings to balcony and jetty. three floors with added floor in brick to south-west, with basement and magazine below sea level, and central two storey observation tower. Rows of windows to lower and middle floors, each with pairs of tinged steel shutters. The middle floor has a group of three projecting turrets to the north-east, the central one concrete supported on a cylindrical shaft with a row of shuttered windows beneath a flat roof, the flanking turrets have conical bases and roofs and full width shuttered openings. The roof of the Fort carries a central cylindrical ventilation shaft; a rectangular flat-roofed armour-clad look-out tower with shuttered windows, single projecting square observation turret to north-east, a roof balcony, mast and radio ariels. To the southwest an added brick storey with seven windows with glazing bars, and a pair of steel chimneys, and to the northeast a pair of gun emplacements. Haile Sand Fort, with its larger companion Fort on Bull Sand (Humberside) 3.75 kilometres to the north-east, guarded the approaches to the Humber with gun batteries and anti-submarine net of steel mesh stretched between them across the mouth of the estuary (now removed). Haile Sand Fort had full amenities for a garrison. Armaments, besides the usual small and rapid-fire weapons, consisted of two six inch guns. A reputed 40,000 tons of concrete and steel went into their construction, at a cost of £1,500,000. Both forts were constantly manned during both world wars, and were often under attack from aircraft and submarine. The army left in 1956, but the Forts were still manned until the early 1960's, when both were sold to the Humber Conservancy Board. SOURCE. Cleethorpes Borough Council, Report Activities Department, information sheet 05/3, Ships and Vessels of the Humber 1985
Listing NGR: TA3491206144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195375
- 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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