Gun Battery West of St Michael's Mount Qv. is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. A Medieval Gun battery.

Gun Battery West of St Michael's Mount Qv.

WRENN ID
young-step-amber
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 October 1987
Type
Gun battery
Period
Medieval
OS grid reference
SW 513 298
Coordinates
50.11629, -5.47892
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gun battery west of St Michael's Mount is a 17th-century structure built from granite ashlar and granite rubble. It features embattled parapets and has a rectangular platform with walls on three sides. The south wall has three chamfered embrasures, while the north wall has four similar embrasures. The battery is equipped with seven cannons, each positioned on a granite flagged floor with cobbles placed between them.

Local climate

Gun Battery West of St Michael's Mount Qv. receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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