Hardy's Head Battery at Sx 9440 5675 is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1993. Gun battery.
Hardy's Head Battery at Sx 9440 5675
- WRENN ID
- unlit-jamb-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1993
- Type
- Gun battery
- Address
- Hardy's Head Battery at Sx 9440 5675, Berry Head Country Park, Brixham
- OS grid reference
- SX 940 566
- Coordinates
- 50.40031, -3.49212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hardy's Head Battery is a gun battery located in Brixham, built between 1779 and 1780 and reactivated from 1794 to 1795. It is constructed from granite with a limestone rubble revetment wall supporting an earth rampart. The battery features four wedge-shaped gun platforms made of large granite slabs, which are designed to tilt gently from the rear to the front to reduce the recoil of the cannons when fired. Two of the platforms face north, one faces east, and one faces west. Surrounding the north, east, and west sides is a low earth parapet, with a stone revetment wall visible on the north side. There are stone rubble footings of a building, likely a magazine, located on the southeast side. The battery is depicted on the 1838 Brixham tithe map, showing a three-sided rampart with four splayed gun embrasures, but no building was present at that time. The site has been developed for public use, featuring seating and an information board.
Local climate
Hardy's Head Battery at Sx 9440 5675 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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