Listed building or place reference: JN0138 Historic site reference Property La Crete Fort Road name Les Nouvelles Charrieres Parish St. John LocationView on map Grade Listed Building Grade 1 Category Anglo-Jersey military structure Statement of significance Outstanding example of early 19th century fortification. La Crête Fort retains its historical authenticity and completeness as an 1834 fort with the architectural integrity of the buildings in close to their original form and physical context. Context n/a External Description La Crête Fort is built on a headland between Bonne Nuit Bay and Giffard Bay. The fort is essentially a gun battery enclosed in the rear by a defensible guardhouse. A dry ditch - 10 feet deep and between 9 and 20 feet wide - originally separated the walls of the guardhouse from the hill slopes behind the fort. The ditch is now infilled with a series of twentieth century rooms, accessed via a side door at lower ditch level. Originally a bridge would have provided access across the ditch. The 1834 entrance doorway is raised at second floor level and flanked by a short screen wall with gun loopholes. The doorway leads to a flat platform supported off the brick soffits of the guardrooms below. The guardhouse is single storey and comprises three vaulted rooms. The walls are granite with dressed stones to openings. The arched vaults are in brick. The original doors and windows have been lost. A granite-flagged passageway runs along the north face of the guardrooms. A door and window have been punched through the back wall of the middle guardroom to provide access to the new 'ditch' rooms. A wide set of granite steps leads up from the guardrooms to the battery yard - although now partly interrupted by a later German structure. Adjoining to the east of the guardrooms is the magazine. The building has a parabolic plan form and vaulted roof - all in dressed granite. The gutters are also cut from granite and curved to match the shape of the walls. The building appears to be two-storey but the lower part is built over an outcrop, leaving a single upper room accessed via the roof level of the guardrooms. A large granite buttress supports the east side of the magazine. There are small ventilation holes around the building. Larger windows of concrete construction have been inserted on the south and west faces of the building. The walls forming the battery are granite rubble with dressed stones to openings and steps, and a granite flagged floor. The southerly part of the battery consists of four large embrasures for cannon. Two of the embrasures survive in their original 1834 form but two were modified by the German forces and now sit inside concrete shelters. A reinforced concrete emplacement was also inserted behind the screen wall. The northerly part of the battery consists of two traversing platforms with circular plan form. The original layout of the upper platform largely survives with the addition of a small reinforced concrete gun emplacement. The lower platform is accessed via an enclosed granite passageway. This platform has been overlaid with a concrete structure designed for a searchlight - although the 1834 layout appears to survive beneath. Outside of the fort are two reinforced concrete emplacements built by the German forces. Above on an outcrop to the south of the ditch is a mortar emplacement disguised by a re-used granite wall. Below on the rocky slopes to the west of the fort is an emplacement covered over with rough granite as camouflage. Internal Description n/a Special interest Archaeological,Architectural,Historical For the best experience, you will need to use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge web browser to view the map Back to detail page Back to search results Documents Terms and conditions for downloading documents The plans, drawings and material provided have been submitted to the Chief Officer for permissions in respect of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002. They are protected by copyright under the Intellectual Property (Unregistered Rights) (Jersey) Law 2011 (Article 70 of the 2011 Law). The material is being provided to make available for public inspection the Register of Planning and Building Applications and must not be used for other purposes without the prior permission of the copyright owner.The Minister for the Environment makes every effort to maintain the accuracy of the information on this website but cannot accept responsibility for and disclaims all responsibility for any loss or damage which may arise from the use of the information provided. For applications approved during or after July 2016 approved documents are available from within the ‘Approved Documents’ section. For applications approved from 15 May 2012 - July 2016 approved documents are available under the ‘Plans’ section. I understand and agree with the terms and conditions. Date Description Size 28/03/2018 Schedule Listed Building Grade 1 196.74 KB Back to search results
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