Defence Electric Light Emplacement North of Bovisand Harbour

A Defence Electric Light emplacement of c.1900, with steps to the rear, historically associated with Bovisand submarine mine observation station (qv.) and Fort Bovisand (qv.)

MATERIALS: concrete and brick structure, and concrete steps.

DESCRIPTION: a searchlight emplacement, square on plan, positioned on a cliff-face promontory. The emplacement has a rectangular opening to the seaward side and a wide door opening in the south wall. By the door opening is a concrete platform with a railing, and thirteen steps rise up the cliffside. The platform and steps are partially collapsed. In the north wall is a lower recess for a stove, with a flue duct in the outer concrete skin. The walls have an inner skin of red brick. The concrete roof is reinforced with steel beams. There is a round hole in the roof for ducting the heat from a searchlight. By the door an iron ring is fixed to the roof.