Camber Castle Icklesham, England
Listed Building Data
Camber Castle has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1234738
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 3 August 1961
- Name
- CAMBER CASTLE
- Location
- CAMBER CASTLE, SEA ROAD
- Parish
- Icklesham
- District
- Rother
- County
- East Sussex
- Grid Reference
- TQ 92186 18457
- Easting
- 592186.0000
- Northing
- 118457.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ 91 NW ICKLESHAM SEA ROAD, WINCHELSEA
25/3 Camber Castle (Formerly listed under 3.8.61 General)
I
Camber Castle stands in the middle of field but the footpath to it is approached from this road. This was one of the series of castles built by Henry VIII as coast defences in 1538. Its plan is quatrefoil-shaped, with lunettes at the corners and the entrance on the North side forming another lunette or the stalk of the flower. It is a squat building of ashlar lined with brick. In the centre of the square is a higher round tower or keep of earlier date built of ashlar and lined with brick for the top or second storey which has probably been added. A scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: TQ9218618457
