First built 1540-1545. Rebuilt in 1624 etc, as a square with square angled bastions. Scheduled.
Landguard Fort. First built 1540-1545. Rebuilt in 1624 etc., as a square with square angle bastions. Rebuilt 1717-1720 as low polygon of red brick with angle bastions. Fort remains in this form, but with Victorian archway and whole interior with its circular building and circular courtyard - 1875 (R1). Beseiged by Dutch in 1666 (Victoria County History of Suffolk, 1907, 194) though no known surviving physical evidence for this.
Report in "Evening Star", 3.8.48, mentions a consecrated chapel with graveyard was built within the confines of the fort and is first recorded in 1676 in Taylor's "History of Harwich" (S1).
November 1962: Scheduled (S2).
December 1971: Scheduled area revised (S2).
1981: Fort in an almost derelict state, with DANGER notices up prohibiting entry. Earthworks covered in weed with perimeter fence broken in many places (S2).
1991: Said to be falling and recently subject to vandalism (S3).
For evaluation and monitoring see (S6-S8) and FEX 161 (sf19270) & 162 (sf20502).
May 2001: Scheduled area revised (S2).
2001/2002: Monitoring of an extensive programme of consolidation work on the exterior defences extant at Landguard Fort, was undertaken. This work was to ensure that no significant evidence relating to the fort's history was irretrievably lost. The report details the specific areas of the fort consolidated, the work done and observations made during the monitoring (S9)(S10).
2006: Monitoring of groundworks for electic cable ducts revealed no archaeological features or finds.
| S1 | Unpublished document: Basil Brown. Basil Brown Archive. Brown B, IX, 135 (SSF50035) |
| R1 | Bibliographic reference: Pevsner N & Radcliffe E. 1974. The Buildings of England: Suffolk. Pevsner N, Buildings of England - Suffolk, 1974, 2, 212 (SSF16083) |
| M1 | Unpublished document: Basil Brown. Basil Brown Archive. Basil Brown archive: volume (SSF50035) |
| S2 | (No record type): DOE, scheduling information (SSF5242) |
| M2 | (No record type): SAM file: (SSF42717) |
| S3 | (No record type): Suff Pres Soc Survey, 1991 (SSF21763) |
| M3 | (No record type): APs: RAF 1953, 58/1007, WS 0090, 0091, 0094, 0095 (SSF42718) |
| S4 | (No record type): Leslie J, History of Landguart Fort, 1898 (SSF10526) |
| M4 | Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish file. Parish file: extracts from (S4)(S5) (S6-S10) (SSF50072) |
| S5 | (No record type): Hussey F, Suffolk Invasion, the Dutch attack on Landguard Fort 1667, 1983 (SSF7688) |
| S6 | Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Evaluation Report. SAU, Sparkes K & Loader T, August 1995 (SSF50056) |
| S7 | Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Evaluation Report. SAU, Loader T, Report 98/22, February 1998 (SSF50056) |
| S8 | Unpublished document: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. Monitoring Report. SAU, Sommers M, No 2000/69, Sep 2000, ill (SSF50119) |
| S9 | Unpublished document: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. Monitoring Report. SCCAS, Sommers M, No 2003/59 (SSF50119) |
| S10 | Bibliographic reference: Goult W. 1990. A Survey of Suffolk Parish History. SCCAS, Sommers M, No 2001/37 (SSF50019) |