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
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Military structure
- Address
- Battery, Wembury
- OS grid reference
- SX 493 493
- Coordinates
- 50.32506, -4.11831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Battery, built in 1905, served as a magazine and battery for 6 inch guns. It features concrete emplacements with rails for gun mountings and steps leading to sunk magazine entrances. The structure includes an iron door and fittings. The interior is noted for being complete and retains some original machinery, including ammunition hoists. Along with the Renney Battery, it showcases the advancements in design and function aimed at countering the battleships and cruisers from the period just before the introduction of the Dreadnought. The lighter and quicker-firing 6 inch guns were specifically designed to target smaller and faster warships that could evade the larger 9.2 inch batteries of the Renney Battery.
Local climate
Battery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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