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Latitude: 50.1441 / 50°8'38"N
Longitude: -5.0421 / 5°2'31"W
OS Eastings: 182740
OS Northings: 31546
OS Grid: SW827315
Mapcode National: GBR ZG.54Q6
Mapcode Global: FRA 08BM.TRQ
Plus Code: 9C2P4XV5+J5
Entry Name: Little Dennis Blockhouse, Pendennis Castle
Listing Date: 23 January 1973
Last Amended: 24 April 1996
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1270099
English Heritage Legacy ID: 460094
ID on this website: 101270099
Location: Cornwall, TR11
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Falmouth
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Budock
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Blockhouse
FALMOUTH
SW83SW CASTLE DRIVE
843-1/2/46 Little Dennis Blockhouse, Pendennis
23/01/73 Castle
(Formerly Listed as:
Little Dennis Blockhouse)
GV I
Blockhouse of castle. 1540-1545 as part of Henry VIII`s
coastal defences, dismantled in 1654. Killas rubble with
granite dressings, built into bedrock on the landward side;
curved merlons to battlements on seaward side; roofless,
originally lead; rubble stack beside staircase. D-shaped plan
with very thick walls; slightly-projecting stair turret to one
corner, doorway recessed to other corner. 4-centred arched
doorway; the main gun port with flanking openings facing
across the estuary and another gun port facing out to sea.
INTERIOR: chamfered flat-headed fireplace; to the opposite
wall a large 4-centred arch to splayed and ribbed gun station,
with a blocked smoke vent above; a smaller gun station at
right angles to this; the drum of newel stair left of the
fireplace; large beam sockets and a coped parapet walk.
Listing NGR: SW8274031546
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