Battery Cottages

Battery Cottages are a pair of attached cottages built around 1861 for Trinity House, serving the fog signal gunners. They are constructed from dressed granite with a projecting plinth and are currently roofless, likely originally having a slated roof. The cottages feature a central axial stack with a red brick chimney and have a double depth plan, with each cottage having a front and back room heated from the central stack, along with unheated 2-cell outshuts on either side that include a small room at the back.

The exterior is one storey high with a front that has a 1:3:1 bay arrangement. There is a central granite porch with a front window and side doorways, flanked by tall windows for the front rooms and smaller windows in the outshuts set back to the left and right. Each side of the outshuts has a doorway and a window, while the rear facing the cliff features two large windows. All windows have granite lintels and cills, although the frames are missing.

The interior has been gutted, but the fireplaces in the axial stack retain granite lintels. These cottages were part of a fog signal battery built in 1861 to address the issue of fog obscuring the Old Lighthouse, which is situated 470 feet above sea level. The cottages were used for the gunners, along with a magazine and integral privies. In 1878, Trinity House replaced the guns with guncotton, and in 1881, there were considerations to move the lower light of the Old Lighthouse to the Battery. Various signaling methods, including bells and whistles, were experimented with, but both the Old Lighthouse and the Battery were abandoned in 1897 when the North and South Lundy Lighthouses were constructed.