Description

SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME

6/70 No. 5 Redoubt

II

Fort/redoubt. Late C18. Sandstone and limestone rubble with limestone dressings,
roofs of barrack rooms formerly slated. Roughly square on plan, with gatehouse and
barrack rooms along east range; surrounded by moat, formerly with bridge to east.
The walls and basement storey below the gatehouse and barrack rooms are battered,
with a limestone bull nose moulding around the north, south and west sides. The east
side is formed of a long single storey gatehouse and barrack room block, similar to
that at Grenville Battery (q.v.). The central gatehouse has a segmental-headed
gateway, 2 rubble piers remaining which formerly supported the bridge. The barrack
rooms to each side have slanted musketry loops to cover the gate bridge, with
sandstone dressings. Stone bomb-proof roof. Some secondary windows have been made
in the barrack rooms.
Interior: The moat bridge has been removed, so interior not accessible. The Redoubt
was formerly used as living accommodation. It remains as a fine example of a
Napoleonic fort, and is of great landscape value. Ancient Monument no. 833.

Listing NGR: SX4334551282

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433462

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments