Fish Pond, Port Logan

The site comprises a fish pond, a single-story, three-bay keeper's cottage, a bathing hut, and associated landscaping, dating from 1788 to 1800. The fish pond is a key feature, enclosed by a curved rubble wall, roughly crenellated with alternate rubble stones serving as merlons. A long, shallow flight of steps descends along the north side to the water's edge, and the pond is formed within natural rock. An opening to the east connects with the sea through a natural rock cleft, spanned by a small rubble arch and iron grille.

The keeper’s cottage is harled with painted margins, boarded doors, and a piended roof to the east and a gabled roof to the west. The north elevation features a door flanked by two small windows, with a crenellated circular tower projecting to the right, providing access to the fish pond. A wall adjoins the tower to the left. The west elevation has a crenellated wallhead, a circular tower on the left with a large pointed-arched doorway and boarded door, a recessed bay with a pointed-arched window, and a bay to the right featuring two incised Greek crosses in line and a raised merlon acting as a wallhead stack. The east elevation displays a window and a shaped-gabled wallhead stack with a spiral-patterned crenellation. The south elevation has a window to the left, a flat-roofed addition towards the center with two windows, and a fish pond wall adjoined to the left. The addition’s windows have top-hopper glazing and mainly feature external boarded shutters (added in 1992). Rendered stacks are visible on the east and west elevations, the roof is covered with small grey slates, and the merlons have red sandstone capping.

The bathing hut is built against natural rock, constructed of painted rubble with painted margins to the doors, and a pinky-grey slate roof. It has crenellated gables to the east and west. There is a door to the right on the east elevation, a gable built against natural rock to the left of the west elevation, and a door slightly right of center. A small four-pane window is centrally positioned on the north elevation, and a chimney flue protrudes to the south. Inside, there is a small fireplace. A narrow slab bridge crosses a gap in the rocks to the west, and concreted steps lead down from the east door.

The site is approached via granite gatepiers with pyramidal caps, a timber gate, and a rubble coped harled wall to the north. Further granite gatepiers, with conical caps and ball finials, accompany another timber gate leading to the bathing hut.