The Range Wall and Martini Henry Butts at Trevol Range is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Military structure.
The Range Wall and Martini Henry Butts at Trevol Range
- WRENN ID
- fading-groin-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Military structure
- Address
- The Range Wall and Martini Henry Butts at Trevol Range, Torpoint
- OS grid reference
- SX 422 543
- Coordinates
- 50.36746, -4.21967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The range wall and Martini-Henry butts at Trevol Range are significant structures built in 1898, with later additions to the wings. The butts are believed to date from around 1880. The wall is constructed from snecked rockfaced limestone rubble, while the butts are made of random rubble with brick copings.
The range wall features a splayed wing on each side and measures about 50 metres high and 100 metres long. The wings have been rebuilt and ramped down to provide additional protection against fire scatter. The Martini-Henry butts to the east include cover blocks at each end, with walls connecting the front and rear. The rear wall is battered and has buttresses, standing about 3 metres high, with a ditch situated between the front and rear walls. Each end of the butts has a rectangular roofless block connected by a rear wall, which has a segmental-headed opening to the rear and to each side.
The Martini-Henry rifle, designed by Swiss inventor Frederich von Martini and modified by Alexander Henry of Edinburgh, was adopted as the British service weapon in April 1871. Granite markers would have been placed at intervals of 150, 200, 300, and 400 yards for firing into the butts.
Local climate
The Range Wall and Martini Henry Butts at Trevol Range sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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