Landguard Fort is a Grade I listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1986. A C17 Fort. 1 related planning application.
Landguard Fort
- WRENN ID
- carved-render-swallow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1986
- Type
- Fort
- Address
- Landguard Fort, Felixstowe, IP11 2TE
- OS grid reference
- TM 283 318
- Coordinates
- 51.93869, 1.32067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Landguard Fort is an artillery fort built in 1711 and remodelled around 1871, located on the site of a fort constructed between 1540 and 1545, which was rebuilt in 1624. The fort features 18th-century work in red brick and 19th-century construction in yellow brick, which is faced externally with granite. It has an irregular pentagon shape with angle bastions. The southwest side was altered in 1871 to create a casement battery for six guns, with a semicircular gorge that projected into the earlier parade. The northeast entrance includes a slightly projecting brick gateway with embattled turrets, a blocked doorway, and two upper stage loops. Inside, there is a granite archway with a keystone dated 1875. The fort was originally built to guard Harwich Harbour.
Local climate
Landguard Fort 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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