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Latitude: 51.4433 / 51°26'36"N
Longitude: -0.377 / 0°22'37"W
OS Eastings: 512889
OS Northings: 172844
OS Grid: TQ128728
Mapcode National: GBR 4P.ZJY
Mapcode Global: VHFTL.FZ1D
Plus Code: 9C3XCJVF+85
Entry Name: Brick Tower Shot Tower
Listing Date: 2 September 1952
Last Amended: 25 June 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1286731
English Heritage Legacy ID: 205292
ID on this website: 101286731
Location: Crane Park, Richmond upon Thames, London, TW2
County: London
District: Richmond upon Thames
Electoral Ward/Division: Hanworth
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Hounslow
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Augustine of Canterbury Whitton
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Shot tower
1.
5028 CRANE PARK
Brick Tower
(Formerly listed as
Shot Tower)
TQ 17 SW 3/1 2.9.52
II
2.
Late C18 or early C19.
Tapering brick tower in English bond. Built like a tower mill. Roofed with lead.
Door and lower windows have painted arches with weatherboarded spandrels and stone
keystone. Interior derelict and no floors. Stands in the middle of trees, which
have grown up all round, beside one of the streams into which the River Crane is
here divided by dams and sluices. This one belonged to the old Hounslow Powder Mills
and is the only surviving building. (The mills were in all probability the first
gunpowder mills in England, dating from the time of the Battle of Crecy, 1315.)
Previously incorrectly listed as a Shot Tower. Perhaps instead a grinding mill.
Listing NGR: TQ1288972844
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