Description

SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME

6/64 Grenville Battery

GV II

Fort. Late C18, with some additions of C19 and 1914/18. Limestone rubble basement
storey and walls to battery, sandstone rubble walls at ground floor level, bomb-proof
stone roofs, formerly slated. Roughly triangular on plan, with long gatehouse and
barrack rooms along north east side (landward).
Gatehouse and barrack rooms are single storey on battered basement, central
segmental-headed gateway with brick dressings, loops along base of barrack rooms,
facing inwards to defend the gate bridge moat. On the inner side, the barrack rooms
have window and door openings with flat heads with keystone and voussoirs, rooms with
vaulted brick ceilings. Stone paved ramparts to seaward sides, with 3 large
reinforced concrete gun emplacements for very large sea-firing guns. Ammunition
hoists and crew shelter appended to these. Older emplacements still exist on the
west side. The ramparts are in rubble, but of small blocks and roughly laid in
courses.
Ancient monument no. 831.

Listing NGR: SX4334551282

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453750

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper