Description

BAWDSEY (Off) EAST LANE
TM 33 NW
(South side)
12/12
Martello Tower
adjacent to Rose
Cottage
G.V. II
Defensive tower. c.1810-1812. Col Twiss and Capt Ford. Rendered brick
with ashlar dressings. Three storeys. Tear-drop-shaped plan; the sharper
end facing East towards the sea. Battered walls. At first floor level are
a series of 4 window openings with cambered heads which have slighly
projecting ashlar surrounds with lugs to the top, centre and bottom of each
side. At the same level and facing west is a doorway with ashlar surround
and an inset ashlar ladder-slope below the sill. A C20 glazed porch rises
above the parapet with single-pitched roof of timber and glass.

Rose Cottage is not a listed building.

Listing NGR: TM3559239760

External Links

• Historic England Listing

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)