Martello Tower

The Martello Tower, now a house, was built in 1806 and converted around 1985. It is constructed of yellowish brick with 20th-century concrete render that is scored to resemble ashlar. The tower is circular in plan, tapering as it rises, and has three storeys. It features a brick plinth and two inserted 20th-century windows on the front at the ground and first floors. To the right, there are 20th-century brick and stone steps leading up to a door on the first floor. The tower has stone coping and a recessed circular second floor with a continuous window and a flat roof.

Inside, the ground floor, which was originally the magazine, has a central brick pier encased with large stone corbels that supported the original first floor. Within the wall thickness, there is a barrel-vaulted powder room with a segmental-arched recess. The first floor was originally divided into two rooms for officers and men, each with a fireplace. A central brick pier supports a domed vault, and there is a ring in the vault above a former trap-door used for hoisting supplies from the magazine. A stone stair within the wall thickness leads to the second floor, which was originally open to the elements and features blocked gun posts and iron rings set in stone blocks for securing guns. This tower was part of the Napoleonic defense system along the south coast. The walls are extremely thick, measuring approximately 5 meters thick on the seaward side and half that thickness on the landward side.