Garden Battery is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Artillery battery. 2 related planning applications.

Garden Battery

WRENN ID
stony-bailey-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1987
Type
Artillery battery
Address
Garden Battery, Maker-With-Rame, PL10 1JB
OS grid reference
SX 456 531
Coordinates
50.35811, -4.17151
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Garden Battery is an artillery battery built in 1863 for coastal defense, later adapted as a saluting platform and a garden feature. It is made of granite and has a crescent-shaped structure with coursed rockface granite, featuring a plinth, cornice, and terminal piers. The battery includes seven gun ports with voussoir heads that are now blocked. Above, there is a saluting terrace with a balustrade and a French Republican cannon. Five steps lead down from the terrace to the garden. At the south end of the terrace, there is a small square structure of unknown purpose, topped with a dome supported by four piers. This battery was part of the defenses of Plymouth, which were improved by Lord Palmerston in the mid-19th century, and it cost £7,804 to build.

Local climate

Garden Battery 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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