Barracks Platform

The Barracks Platform is a historic military structure featuring a scarp wall that rises above the platform level, culminating in a loopholed parapet wall. This wall is lower at the salient angle of each bastion to accommodate the guns positioned on the barbette platforms. The northwest bastion includes four gun mountings: a single smooth bore muzzle loading gun platform, a 5-inch breech-loading Vavasseur gun mounting on the barbette platform at the salient angle, and two raised circular concrete 'C' pivot 9-inch rifled muzzle-loading mountings. The northeast bastion also has four 'B' pivot smooth bore muzzle loading gun mountings and a concrete depression range finder pillar situated on a raised platform against the north face. Within the gorge of the bastion, there is a brick urinal, while the east face features a rectangular single-storey regimental institute, which is rendered and has a hipped slate roof. The southeast bastion contains three raised smooth bore muzzle loading gun platforms and a barbette at the salient angle.

The southwest bastion includes a large rendered workshop built around 1939. The east curtain of the platform has a single smooth bore muzzle loading gun platform and exhibits explosion damage from World War Two. The west curtain features a 'banquette' (infantry firing step), and both this wall and the scarp show evidence of bomb damage from World War Two. The site is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.