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Clavell Tower

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The tower was rebuilt to be suitable for letting. Work started on 5 September 2006. Each of the tower's 16,272 stones was removed, numbered and photographed by engineers and specialist builders, before being reassembled slightly inland. The interior was renovated so that it can be used as a holiday
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built in stone. In total the tower has four floors; a stone ground floor, a wooden first, a wooden second and a wooden third floor. The tower is surmounted upon a shallow stone basement. Evidence suggests there were fireplaces within the ground floor which indicated the tower was intended to be
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The tower is about 35 feet (11 m) high and rises over what is known as Hen Cliff which rises about 330 feet (100 m) above the sea. The main tower is constructed of mortared selected stone and the windows are formed from brick. The ground floor is surrounded by Tuscan
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home. The final stone was replaced onto the tower on 25 February 2008 in a traditional topping-out ceremony. The tower used 298 new carved stones, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of pipes and cables, 10 tons of render on the walls, 1,344 bags of lime and about 100 tons of sand.
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The building preservation charity hopes that the tower's maintenance will be paid for by rental income from holidaymakers. The monument accommodates two people. The living room on the top floor has a 360-degree view of the surrounding coast and countryside.
179:. The turret above Kimmeridge Bay was threatened by shoreline erosion and was in imminent danger of toppling into the ocean below. The Landmark Trust have moved the tower 25 metres (82 ft) landwards, away from the crumbling cliff top. 137:. The local Coastguards used it as a lookout until the 1930s, when it was gutted by fire. The desolate condition of Clavell Tower was the inspiration behind Baroness 1203: 1198: 328: 365: 1208: 1193: 18: 224: 1183: 246: 1178: 219: 535: 127:
occupied throughout the year. However, access to the first and second floors would have been accessible solely via a ladder.
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to mark the 50th anniversary of the Landmark Trust. The sculpture fell into the sea in September 2015,
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property and in August 2006 was moved 25 metres (82 ft) back from the crumbling cliff edge.
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The location was chosen for one of the five locations for the installation of sculptures by
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as a principal location in their six part adaptation of the story starring
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Clavell Tower was built in about 1830 by Reverend John Richards Clavell of
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Clavell Tower in the final stages of re-erection, February 2008
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50°36′25″N 2°7′48″W / 50.60694°N 2.13000°W / 50.60694; -2.13000

Grade II listed
Tuscan
Jurassic Coast
Hen Cliff
Kimmeridge Bay
Isle of Purbeck
Dorset
England
Landmark Trust
Smedmore House
observatory
folly
colonnade
parapet
Thomas Hardy
P. D. James
The Black Tower
Anglia Television
Roy Marsden
The Style Council

Landmark Trust
Antony Gormley
Historic England
"Clavell Tower (Grade II) (1120474)"
National Heritage List for England
"Clavell Tower"
Landmark Trust

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