Napoleonic Fort Guardhouse, Approximately 30 Metres Inside Entrance to Northern Fort is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1993. Guardhouse, cafe.
Napoleonic Fort Guardhouse, Approximately 30 Metres Inside Entrance to Northern Fort
- WRENN ID
- old-gable-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1993
- Type
- Guardhouse, cafe
- OS grid reference
- SX 943 564
- Coordinates
- 50.39883, -3.48814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Napoleonic Fort Guardhouse, located approximately 30 meters inside the entrance to the northern fort in Berry Head Country Park, was built between 1798 and 1802. It was extended at the rear by 1811 and again between 1865 and 1906. The building features roughcast walls with pilasters made of Devonian limestone ashlar and hipped slated roofs, with the late 19th-century roof being higher than that of the original front range.
The guardhouse has a two-room front range, which may have originally included a verandah. It is a single storey and is four windows wide, with a central doorway. Broad pilasters with plain bases are positioned between and flanking the openings, and raised bands just below the eaves serve as substitutes for capitals. There are two matching pilasters on the left side wall and three on the right side wall. The windows are wood-framed, with some likely dating from the 19th century, featuring wood mullions and upright glazing bars.
Inside, the guardhouse has king-post trusses that display carpenter's marks.
Local climate
Napoleonic Fort Guardhouse, Approximately 30 Metres Inside Entrance to Northern Fort receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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