Fort Picklecombe

Fort Picklecombe stands in Cornwall as a castle, fort or tower whose lease passed from Lord Mount Edgcumbe to the War Department in 1867. The arrangement included a covenant to restore the property, suggesting the state did not merely occupy the stones but promised to return them whole. That bargain gives the place a rare integrity: even when power takes a building, it may still be answerable to the shape of what was given.