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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1810 to 1850

Summary from record TQ 97 SW 1024:

Folly NE of Ship on Shore public house, Marine Parade, Marine Town Sheerness, c1830.

Monument Types

• SITE (Unknown date)
• SITE (Post Medieval - 1810 AD to 1850 AD)
• FOLLY (Constructed c.1830, Post Medieval to Modern - 1830 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
MARINE PARADE 1. 5282 (South Side) Marine Town, Sheerness Grotto-shaped folly to north-east of Ship on Shore Public House TQ 97 SW 11/81
II 2. Circa 1830. This Grotto was built by a farmer who found a ship's cargo of cement in barrels washed up on the coast. As the barrels had become soaked with sea water the cement had set to form barrel shaped blocks which were used to build the folly's walls. 1 storey built of cement blocks, flint and burr bricks. 5 pointed arches, now filled in by weatherboarding. Parapet with a succession of curves.
Listing NGR: TQ9354674882

Description from record TQ 97 SW 1024:
c1830 grotto shaped folly built from washed up ship's cargo of cement which had set into barrel shaped blocks. 1 storey of cement blocks and flint and burr bricks. 5 pointed arches, weatherboard filling. Parapet with succession of curves. (1)

First shown on 2nd edition OS 25" mapping (1897-1900).

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<1> Department of the Environment, KCC Greenback Index (Index). SWX9400.

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