Listed building outline

Gun Battery Approximately 10 Metres West Of The Battery

Field Value Fact links
Reference 383535 Facts
Prefix listed-building-outline Facts
Name Gun Battery Approximately 10 Metres West Of The Battery Facts
Dataset Listed building outline no fact link
Organisation Torbay Council no fact link
Start date 1993-10-17 no fact link
End date no fact link
Entry date 1993-10-17 Facts
Typology geography no fact link
Geometry MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.497157 50.401084, -3.49716 50.401031, -3.496933 50.401025, -3.496929 50.401078, -3.497157 50.401084))) Facts
Point POINT (-3.497045 50.401055) Facts
Dataset name Facts
Notes Gun battery, now converted to cottage and garage. 1830s (after 1832). Timber-frame, now clad with vertical planks. Hipped felted roof. Small oblong building on cliff edge overlooking the sea. Provision for 3 cannon with a store or shelter at either end. 1 storey. Hinges of 3 large pairs of double doors visible, of which only the right-hand door survives; this is of vertical planking with strap-hinges. At each end was a smaller door; that to right survives, similar in construction to the larger door. Garage doors have been inserted in right-hand section; late C20 glazed door and 2 windows in cottage to left. On the seaward side the large timber uprights of the gun-ports are visible externally. INTERIOR: only garage inspected. Large timber posts carrying tie-beams exposed. Roof of common rafters with collars fixed to face of each pair. Original plank floor with iron ring for securing the gun. In front of building a pavement of granite slabs and a further iron ring. The foundations of another battery, also with iron ring, are exposed in the garden to the west. This was the Shoalstone Point Battery, probably erected following Colonel Birch's report to the Board of Ordnance in 1832. It now stands in the garden of a C20 bungalow called The Battery (not included). (Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Reports: Pye AR: Berry Head Fort, Brixham: 1990-: 26). Listing NGR: SX9372456757 Facts
Listed building 1195167 Facts

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    "notes": "Gun battery, now converted to cottage and garage. 1830s (after 1832). Timber-frame, now clad with vertical planks. Hipped felted roof. Small oblong building on cliff edge overlooking the sea. Provision for 3 cannon with a store or shelter at either end. 1 storey. Hinges of 3 large pairs of double doors visible, of which only the right-hand door survives; this is of vertical planking with strap-hinges. At each end was a smaller door; that to right survives, similar in construction to the larger door. Garage doors have been inserted in right-hand section; late C20 glazed door and 2 windows in cottage to left. On the seaward side the large timber uprights of the gun-ports are visible externally. INTERIOR: only garage inspected. Large timber posts carrying tie-beams exposed. Roof of common rafters with collars fixed to face of each pair. Original plank floor with iron ring for securing the gun. In front of building a pavement of granite slabs and a further iron ring. The foundations of another battery, also with iron ring, are exposed in the garden to the west. This was the Shoalstone Point Battery, probably erected following Colonel Birch's report to the Board of Ordnance in 1832. It now stands in the garden of a C20 bungalow called The Battery (not included). (Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Reports: Pye AR: Berry Head Fort, Brixham: 1990-: 26). Listing NGR: SX9372456757",
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