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© Anne Newell ARPS
IoE Number:
61866
Location:
BLOCKHOUSE AT THE GARDEN BATTERY,
MAKER WITH RAME, CARADON, CORNWALL
Photographer:
Anne Newell ARPS
Date Photographed:
21 February 2003
Date listed:
23 January 1968
Date of last amendment:
26 January 1987
Grade
II*
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SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/209 Tudor Block House
(formerly listed as the Blockhouse
23.1.68 at the Garden Battery)
GV II*
Coastal defence block house. Circa 1540. Slatestone rubble. Square on plan.
Single storey with roof platform with remains of battlements. Doorways on two
sides, of which one is a later alteration. Main doorway to landward side, plain
square-headed one with squint and drawbar holes. Gun ports on 3 sides. Tablet of
1980 with the history of the building. Severely plain interior. A part of the
Henrician defences of Plymouth Sound.
Ancient Monument no. 315.