Gun Battery Approximately 10 Metres West Of The Battery

BRIXHAM

SX95NW BERRY HEAD ROAD, Berry Head 1946-1/2/28 (North side) Gun battery approx. 10m west of The Battery (not included)

GV II

Gun battery, now converted to cottage and garage. 1830s (after 1832). Timber-frame, now clad with vertical planks. Hipped felted roof. Small oblong building on cliff edge overlooking the sea. Provision for 3 cannon with a store or shelter at either end. 1 storey. Hinges of 3 large pairs of double doors visible, of which only the right-hand door survives; this is of vertical planking with strap-hinges. At each end was a smaller door; that to right survives, similar in construction to the larger door. Garage doors have been inserted in right-hand section; late C20 glazed door and 2 windows in cottage to left. On the seaward side the large timber uprights of the gun-ports are visible externally. INTERIOR: only garage inspected. Large timber posts carrying tie-beams exposed. Roof of common rafters with collars fixed to face of each pair. Original plank floor with iron ring for securing the gun. In front of building a pavement of granite slabs and a further iron ring. The foundations of another battery, also with iron ring, are exposed in the garden to the west. This was the Shoalstone Point Battery, probably erected following Colonel Birch's report to the Board of Ordnance in 1832. It now stands in the garden of a C20 bungalow called The Battery (not included). (Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Reports: Pye AR: Berry Head Fort, Brixham: 1990-: 26).

Listing NGR: SX9370356760