Gun Battery Approximately 10 Metres West of the Battery
GUN BATTERY APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF THE BATTERY, BERRY HEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195167
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Gun Battery Approximately 10 Metres West of the Battery
- Statutory Address:
- GUN BATTERY APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF THE BATTERY, BERRY HEAD ROAD
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- 2001-06-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/04458/05
- Rights:
- © Mr Dennis Coote. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195167
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Gun Battery Approximately 10 Metres West of the Battery
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUN BATTERY APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF THE BATTERY, BERRY HEAD ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GUN BATTERY APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF THE BATTERY, BERRY HEAD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 93703 56760
Details
BRIXHAM
SX95NW BERRY HEAD ROAD, Berry Head 1946-1/2/28 (North side) Gun battery approx. 10m west of The Battery (not included)
GV II
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: SX9370356760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383535
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Report in Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit, (1990), 26
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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