The Battery is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. A C19 Military structure.
The Battery
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-gateway-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Military structure
- Address
- The Battery, St. Germans
- OS grid reference
- SX 364 574
- Coordinates
- 50.39446, -4.30298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Battery is an ornamental battery, likely built in the mid-19th century. It features a slatestone rubble wall that is approximately 30 meters long, with an embattled design and slate coping on the merlons. The wall extends to the south for another 30 meters, but this section does not have battlements and also has slate coping. There are six cannons facing out towards the River Tiddy, two of which are dated 1808 and inscribed with the names RUELLE and NEVERS, while another cannon is dated 1617.
Local climate
The Battery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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