Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108570
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Battery
- Statutory Address:
- BATTERY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108570
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Battery
- Statutory Address 1:
- BATTERY
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BATTERY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wembury
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 49313 49384
Details
SX 44 NE WEMBURY LENTNEY COAST
7/10001 Battery
GV II
Magazine and battery for 6 inch guns. 1905. Concrete emplacements each with rails to gun mountings and steps to sunk magazine entrances. Iron door and fittings. Noted as having complete interior with some original machinery including ammunition hoists. Together with the Renney Battery (q.v.) it exemplifies the recent advances made in form and design made in order to counter the battleships and cruisers of the immediate pre-Dreadnought era; the lighter and quicker-firing 6 inch guns were designed to deal with the smaller and faster warships which might have evaded the 9.2 inch batteries of the Renney Battery,
Listing NGR: SX4931349384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100536
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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