Browndown Battery is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1983. A C19 Military structure. 1 related planning application.
Browndown Battery
- WRENN ID
- iron-transept-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1983
- Type
- Military structure
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
In the entry for BROWNDOWN ROAD Battery No 1 3/9 (Browndown Battery)
The address shall be amended to read BROWNDOWN ROAD Browndown Battery
BROWNDOWN ROAD 1. 5232 Battery No 1 (Browndown Battery) SZ 59 NE 3/9 II Circa 1888/89. The structure, of brick and concrete, makes provision for 2 large guns, and a rearward control point on the west side. The concrete front to the emplacements slopes upwards to the rim of the V-shaped gun pit. There is ground floor accommodation underneath the rear of each platform, between which is a central ammunition store, with a more heavily protected roof. Although incomplete and derelict, there is a survival of many detailed features (steps, cupboards, channels, metal fixtures, railings etc), to indicate the scale and type of armament. The south face (towards the fleet anchorage) is protected by a sloping earthwork; on the north inner side is a yard, with a high brick wall on its northern boundary.
Listing NGR: SU6023198804
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