The Cannon Fort and Adjoining Dock is a Grade II* listed building in the Gedling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1966. A Georgian Fort. 1 related planning application.
The Cannon Fort and Adjoining Dock
- WRENN ID
- keen-gallery-plum
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Gedling
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1966
- Type
- Fort
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- SK 537 538
- Coordinates
- 53.07908, -1.19879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cannon Fort and adjoining dock is a mock fort built around 1750 for the fifth Lord Byron. It was restored in 1986 and features coursed and squared rubble and ashlar construction. The fort has a plinth, a string course, and a crenellated parapet, with nine round bosses on the lake side. It includes a semi-circular central bay flanked by single triangular bastions, each with curved steps. Each bastion has a circular tower; the one to the southwest is roofless, while the northeast tower has a dome topped with a ball finial and two square openings. Both towers have moulded pointed doorways, and the rear of the fort features seven pointed arched recesses. The adjoining dock to the northeast has slab coping. This fort was designed to be an eye catcher across the lake and served as a mooring for the ship that the fifth Lord Byron used to entertain friends with mock naval battles.
Local climate
The Cannon Fort and Adjoining Dock sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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