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
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Military facility
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- Battery, Wembury
- OS grid reference
- SX 494 489
- Coordinates
- 50.32117, -4.11565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Battery is a Grade II listed magazine and battery built in 1905 for 9.2 inch guns. Constructed from concrete, it features three emplacements, each equipped with rails for gun mountings and steps leading to sunk magazine entrances. The structure includes iron doors and fittings. It is noted for having a complete interior that retains some original machinery, including ammunition hoists. This well-preserved example of a 9.2 inch battery, along with the Lentney Battery, showcases recent advances in military architecture and was designed to accommodate the two principal heavy guns intended to counter the battleships and armoured cruisers of the pre-Dreadnought era.
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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