OS grid reference TR10164 29252 Designated 23 April 1985 Year built 1805 | Type Grade II listed Reference no. 175512 Phone +44 370 333 1181 | |
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Address High Street, Romney Marsh TN29 0TJ, United Kingdom Similar Tithe Barn - Maidstone, Stocks Mill - Wittersham, Old Soar Manor, Maison Dieu - Faversham, Whitstable Museum and Gallery | ||
Martello tower no 23 dymchurch world s most extreme homes
Dymchurch Martello Tower, is a Martello Tower in Dymchurch, Kent England. It stands immediately behind the sea wall.
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It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed scheduled monument.
The towers were built in the nineteenth century as part of a coastal defence programme. It was placed to protect the gates of marsh sluices with its counterpart Tower no 25 (which is now largely derelict).
Tower 23 was restored externally in the early 1970s and is currently a private residence. Tower 24 was then restored using Tower 23 as a guide. In 1969, it became the first Martello tower to be opened to the public and remains as a museum of the Martello Towers, owned by English Heritage.
It is currently open between April to October.
It has a 24 pounder muzzle-loading cannon on the gun platform.