Battery Observation Post Battery Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1997. Observation post.
Battery Observation Post Battery Gardens
- WRENN ID
- dusted-chancel-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1997
- Type
- Observation post
- Address
- Battery Observation Post Battery Gardens, North Furzeham Road, Brixham
- OS grid reference
- SX 921 568
- Coordinates
- 50.40165, -3.5191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Battery Observation Post at Battery Gardens, built in 1940, is a two-storey structure made of reinforced concrete. It features steps leading down to a first-floor balcony, which is accessed from the northwest side. The balcony has a cantilevered roof that provides a view of the sea to the northeast. The entrance to the ground floor is located directly beneath this balcony, with a wide opening. The building is set into the cliff, with its flat roof level with North Furzeham Road. The upper storey housed high precision range finders and served as the communication centre for the searchlight positions and guns. A Bar and Stroud range finder was located in the lower part of the building. This observation post was the operational focal point of the Emergency Coastal Defence Battery, one of many constructed in 1940 to enhance protection for harbour installations. It remains remarkably well-preserved, along with the associated searchlight and gun positions.
Local climate
Battery Observation Post Battery Gardens 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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