Naze Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. Navigation tower. 1 related planning application.
Naze Tower
- WRENN ID
- half-barrel-wren
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- Navigation tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
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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