Former Artillery Store Approximately 12 Metres West of Coastguard Lookout in Northern Fort is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Military store.

Former Artillery Store Approximately 12 Metres West of Coastguard Lookout in Northern Fort

WRENN ID
lost-vestry-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
Military store
OS grid reference
SX 945 565
Coordinates
50.39952, -3.48441
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former artillery store, now serving as a public shelter, was built between 1795 and 1802. It is constructed of coursed stone rubble and features a slated roof. The building is a simple, small oblong shape with a wide doorway on the east side, which faces the magazine and the site of the gun battery. It is a single storey with a loft. The front of the building has a doorway flanked by two large windows, all three of which have deep rectangular holes in the jambs, likely for securing the door and window frames. There is a plain hatch with a wooden lintel at the top of the north gable. Inside, the loft floor has plain beams and joists, which are probably from the 20th century. Pye and Slater describe the roof as being of relatively recent date.

Local climate

Former Artillery Store Approximately 12 Metres West of Coastguard Lookout in 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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