Battery is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. Military structure.

Battery

WRENN ID
leaning-corner-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Country
England
Type
Military structure
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SX 44 NE WEMBURY LENTNEY COAST

7/10001 Battery

GV II

Magazine and battery for 6 inch guns. 1905. Concrete emplacements each with rails to gun mountings and steps to sunk magazine entrances. Iron door and fittings. Noted as having complete interior with some original machinery including ammunition hoists. Together with the Renney Battery (q.v.) it exemplifies the recent advances made in form and design made in order to counter the battleships and cruisers of the immediate pre-Dreadnought era; the lighter and quicker-firing 6 inch guns were designed to deal with the smaller and faster warships which might have evaded the 9.2 inch batteries of the Renney Battery,

Listing NGR: SX4931349384

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