Barracks Platform is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 January 1994. Wall.
Barracks Platform
- WRENN ID
- unlit-tallow-wind
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1994
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Barracks Platform, Pembroke Dock
- OS grid reference
- SM 960 030
- Coordinates
- 51.68938, -4.95187
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Barracks Platform sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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