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Naze Tower

A Grade II* Listed Building in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

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Latitude: 51.8644 / 51°51'51"N

Longitude: 1.2881 / 1°17'17"E

OS Eastings: 626486

OS Northings: 223539

OS Grid: TM264235

Mapcode National: GBR VRQ.2GN

Mapcode Global: VHLCV.8DVL

Plus Code: 9F33V77Q+Q7

Entry Name: Naze Tower

Listing Date: 21 June 1984

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1165846

English Heritage Legacy ID: 119945

ID on this website: 101165846

Location: Tendring, Essex, CO14

County: Essex

District: Tendring

Civil Parish: Frinton and Walton

Built-Up Area: Walton-on-the-Naze

Traditional County: Essex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex

Church of England Parish: Walton-le-Soken All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford

Tagged with: Lighthouse

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Description


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TM 22 SE
4/96

FRINTON AND WALTON
THE NAZE,
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE
Naze Tower

21.6.84

II*

Navigation Tower. Dated 1720 for Trinity House. Plum coloured brick. Octagonal of three reducing stages with clasping buttresses to angles. C19/C20 upper stage. Moulded brick plinth with 1979 concrete plinth below. Third stage with two upper roundheaded window openings, one now blocked and three windows above second stage, two now blocked. Two round headed windows to second stage and a single window to first stage. C20 double vertically boarded doors, concrete lintel over. A lead plaque over doorway relates "Trinity House 1720".

Internally the tower has several storeys reached by an iron spiral staircase. Iron framework to top section. Designed to serve with Walton Hall Tower q.v. 4/88 as a guide to vessels through the Goldmer Gap and also with a light in Suffolk to lead into the Suffolk/Essex border rivers.

Listing NGR: TM2648623539

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