Description

ALDEBURGH

TM45SE SLAUGHDON
837-1/3/44 Martello Tower
27/02/50

II*

Martello tower. 1808-10 by Royal Engineers to design of
Colonel Twiss and Captain Ford: sold 1932 and converted to
house: commandeered 1940 as military watch tower: restored
1973. Red brick on granite plinth and with ashlar dressings.
4-gun tower, quatrefoil in plan and surrounded by deep brick
moat.
EXTERIOR: entrance to west set in stone reveals and reached by
elevated timber walkway. In each of 4 lobes is one
ashlar-faced round-headed window.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Eastern segment of the moat has been eroded by the sea. Tower
is the most northerly and largest of those built during the
Napoleonic War.
Scheduled Ancient Monument, No. 106
(Kent P: Fortifications of East Anglia: Lavenham: 1988-:
145-147; BOE: Pevsner N: Suffolk, 2nd Edition: Harmondsworth:
1974-: 73).

Listing NGR: TM4629554908

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Slaughden Martello Tower official website
• Wikidata Q17546462

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)