Battery approximately 80m SE of East Weare Camp is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 2018. Military battery.
Battery approximately 80m SE of East Weare Camp
- WRENN ID
- waning-stair-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 2018
- Type
- Military battery
- Address
- Battery approximately 80m SE of East Weare Camp, DT5 1EG
- OS grid reference
- SY 697 736
- Coordinates
- 50.5614, -2.42795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a large battery dating originally from the 1860s, altered during the 1880s and again during the 20th century. It is located on the northeastern side of the Isle of Portland. The battery has magazine stores constructed primarily of stone under earth mounds, with gun positions of concrete and stone. Access is from the north along a vehicle track that passes garrison buildings and a former, unlisted Battery B; south of these is a freestanding, L-shaped building and the magazine stores, housed within a large earth mound. This has an internal corridor running roughly north to south, with the stores accessed off it. The two gun positions lie to the east.
At the northwest corner of the magazine stores is a small, L-shaped building of coursed stone, featuring a ramped parapet wall and individual door and window openings corresponding to the rooms within. This section survives relatively intact from the original 1860s construction. To the south, the large magazine store is housed underneath an earth mound, with sections of stone elevations displaying arched openings providing access to the corridor within. The walls are of coursed ashlar stone with some later brick repairs. To the east are two gun positions from rebuilding around 1900, mostly of concrete, with some surviving ironwork and curving passages to the sides, some with sections of collapsed ceiling.
The northern L-shaped building contains four rooms, each with its own external access, some of which have later fireplaces. The main magazine building contains a series of six barrel-vaulted rooms, accessed from a long internal passage, which served as shell and cartridge stores, with a men's shelter at the southern end. The walls are mostly of stone with brick vaulted ceilings. Some rooms retain timber doors, some with painted signs. Each room has a small opening at the end, with a lighting passage beyond. Further subterranean stores are believed to exist to the east, but have not been inspected.
Local climate
Battery approximately 80m SE of East Weare Camp receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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