Woolpack Batteries is a Grade II listed building in the Isles of Scilly local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1992. Military structure. 1 related planning application.

Woolpack Batteries

WRENN ID
buried-threshold-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isles of Scilly
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1992
Type
Military structure
Source
Historic England listing

Description

ST. MARY'S

SV81SE THE GARRISON, Hugh Town 1358-0/3/89 Woolpack Batteries

II

Two batteries. 1901. Concrete. Each of rectangular plan with rounded corners and surrounded by deep ditch. Each has 2 gun positions on top of a large earthwork and a concrete structure with magazines. Iron loopholes and gates, latter being loopholed and of 1.5cm armour plating. Part of an abortive scheme to turn the islands into a fleet anchorage, but the notoriously shallow water within the islands would always have prevented a south-west counterpart to Scapa Flow. (Saunders, A: Fortress Britain: Liphook: 1989-: 192).

Listing NGR: SV8978610155

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