Barracks Platform

The Barracks Platform: The scarp wall rises above the level of the platform to become a loopholed parapet wall, which is reduced in height at the salient angle of each bastion to allow for the guns mounted on the barbette platforms. The NW bastion has four gun mountings: a single smooth bore muzzle loading (SBML) gun platform, a 5-inch breech-loading (BL) Vavasseur gun mounting on the barbette platform at the salient angle, and two raised circular concrete 'C' pivot 9-inch rifled muzzle-loading (RML) mountings. The NE bastion contains four 'B' pivot SBML gun mountings and a concrete depression range finder (DRF) pillar on a raised platform against the N face. The gorge of the bastion has a brick urinal and the E face a rectangular single-storey regimental institute, rendered with hipped slate roof. The SE bastion contains three raised SBML gun platforms and a barbette at the salient angel.

The SW bastion has a large rendered workshop of c1939. The E curtain of the platform has a single SBML gun platform and shows explosion damage from World War Two. The W curtain has a 'banquette' (infantry firing step) and this wall and scarp show World War Two bomb damage.

Scheduled Ancient Monument Pe 379.