Scoveston Fort

The fort, similar to Crownhill at Plymouth, is a very large hexagon with sides of 120m, surrounded by a dry moat some 8m deep and 11m wide, the escarp walls stone-revetted, the counter-scarp natural rock. A single entry on the S was approached by a serpentine road to a wooden bridge (now earth causeway), the entry a stone archway into a tunnel through a massive earth bank. The moat was covered by one double and four single two-storey caponnieres each with 4 gun embrasures and musketry loopholes. The fort was designed to have 32 guns sited on the ramparts served by 12 expense magazines set into the traverses, each gun position protected from behind by earth. There was also an earth bank across the centre of the parade ground. Accommodation for a garrison of 128 men was in the five caponnieres and 12 barrel-vaulted bomb-proof casemates, designed as a series of limestone vaults fronted in brick with windows and doors on the S front (similar to barracks at Fort Hubberstone). The magazine was under the NW rampart, 2 barrel vaulted underground chambers served by a lighting and ventilation passageway that surround it.

The fort is currently inaccessible as the iron tunnel gate is barred.