Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489759

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