The Battery, Fort Belvedere (Including 31 Cannon Gun Battery) is a Grade II listed building in the Runnymede local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Battery. 4 related planning applications.

The Battery, Fort Belvedere (Including 31 Cannon Gun Battery)

WRENN ID
tangled-pinnacle-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Runnymede
Constituency
Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1986
Type
Battery
Address
The Battery, Fort Belvedere (Including 31 Cannon Gun Battery), London Road, SL5 7SD
OS grid reference
SU 966 682
Coordinates
51.40474, -0.61164
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Battery at Fort Belvedere, built between 1827 and 1828, is a stone structure that was part of Sir Jeffrey Wyattville's redesign of the Duke of Cumberland's gothic style folly. The battery features a crenellated parapet designed to accommodate 47 guns, forming a wide arc to the east of Fort Belvedere, with two bastions overlooking Virginia Water. It was intended for ceremonial salutes and was specifically built to house the Duke of Cumberland's 31 brass cannons, which were relocated from Cumberland Lodge for this purpose. These cannons were manufactured at Woolwich between 1729 and 1749 by Andrew Schlagt and his assistant Bowen, and they rest on iron gun carriages.

Local climate

The Battery, Fort Belvedere (Including 31 Cannon Gun Battery) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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