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

Battery

WRENN ID
dim-copper-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Country
England
Type
Military facility
Period
Modern
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The following buildings shall be added to the list:-

SX 44 NE WEMBURY RENNEY COAST

7/10000 Battery

GV II

Magazine and battery for 9.2 inch guns. 1905. Concrete. 3 emplacements, each with rails to gun mountings and steps to sunk magazine entrances. Iron doors and fittings. Noted as having complete interior with some original machinery including ammunition hoists. A well preserved example of a 9.2 inch battery. Together with the Lentney Battery (q.v.) it exemplifies recent advances made in form and design and housed the two principal heavy guns designed to counter the battleships and armoured cruisers of the pre-Dreadnought era.

Listing NGR: SX4949048946

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