What is recorded here

Sandgate Castle is a private Kent fortress built by Henry VIII in 1539 to block invasion routes, surviving civil wars, Napoleonic redesigns and centuries of coastal erosion. The sea took its southern edge before people restored the remaining keep into a home, leaving a strange half-drowned house where military stone and domestic life still share one address.

The National Heritage List for England records Sandgate Castle as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Sandgate Castle was built by the de Sande family in the late 13th or early 14th century as a defensive structure during the Hundred Years' War. It is remembered for its strategic position on the Isle of Sheppey, guarding the mouth of the River Medway and serving as a key coastal defense in southeast England.

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