Defence Electric Light Emplacement North of Bovisand Harbour is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 2014. Defence emplacements.
Defence Electric Light Emplacement North of Bovisand Harbour
- WRENN ID
- tattered-hearth-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 2014
- Type
- Defence emplacements
- OS grid reference
- SX 487 508
- Coordinates
- 50.3385, -4.12728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Defence Electric Light emplacement, built around 1900, is located north of Bovisand Harbour and is historically linked to the Bovisand submarine mine observation station and Fort Bovisand.
This structure is made of concrete and brick, featuring concrete steps. It is square in shape and situated on a cliff-face promontory. The seaward side has a rectangular opening, while the south wall includes a wide door opening. Adjacent to the door is a concrete platform with a railing, and thirteen steps lead up the cliffside, although both the platform and steps are partially collapsed.
Inside, the north wall contains a lower recess for a stove, complete with a flue duct in the outer concrete layer. The walls have an inner skin of red brick, and the concrete roof is reinforced with steel beams. A round hole in the roof allows for ducting heat from a searchlight, and an iron ring is fixed to the roof near the door.
Local climate
Defence Electric Light Emplacement North of Bovisand Harbour 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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