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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Artillery battery
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/208 Garden Battery
GV II
Artillery battery of 7 guns, for coastal defence, later adapted as a saluting platform and as a garden feature. 1863. Granite. Crescent shaped structure of coursed rockface granite with plinth, cornice and terminal piers. 7 gun ports with voussoir heads now blocked. Saluting terrace above with balustrade with French Republican cannon. 5 steps behind leading down to garden. Small square structure of unknown purpose at south end of terrace. This has a dome supported on 4 piers. A part of the defences of Plymouth as improved by Lord Palmerston in the mid C19. Building cost £7,804.
Listing NGR: SX4563453167
Detailed Attributes
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