Mount Pleasant Blockhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1954. A Georgian Gun battery.

Mount Pleasant Blockhouse

WRENN ID
drifting-beam-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1954
Type
Gun battery
Period
Georgian
Source
Historic England listing

Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4555 MASTERMAN ROAD, Stoke 740-1/41/656 (North side) 25/01/54 Mount Pleasant Blockhouse (Formerly Listed as: BLOCKHOUSE ROAD, Devonport Mount Pleasant Blockhouse)

II

Gun battery, built to defend Plymouth Dock (now Devonport Docks) and known locally as the Pattypan. Mid C18. Brick walls and granite flags as paving to surfaces. Overall square plan with central sunken area with splayed corners, the gun platform accessed by 2 ramps flanking the entrance and by 2 flights of steps, 2 sides with splayed gun positions. The battery is in a commanding position in the centre of what is now a public recreation area surrounded by a late C19 housing estate.

Listing NGR: SX4593755764

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