Grenville Battery
GRENVILLE BATTERY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160076
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grenville Battery
- Statutory Address:
- GRENVILLE BATTERY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160076
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grenville Battery
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRENVILLE BATTERY
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.
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:
- GRENVILLE BATTERY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maker-with-Rame
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 43848 51127
Details
SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME
6/64 Grenville Battery
GV II
Fort. Late C18, with some additions of C19 and 1914/18. Limestone rubble basement storey and walls to battery, sandstone rubble walls at ground floor level, bomb-proof stone roofs, formerly slated. Roughly triangular on plan, with long gatehouse and barrack rooms along north east side (landward). Gatehouse and barrack rooms are single storey on battered basement, central segmental-headed gateway with brick dressings, loops along base of barrack rooms, facing inwards to defend the gate bridge moat. On the inner side, the barrack rooms have window and door openings with flat heads with keystone and voussoirs, rooms with vaulted brick ceilings. Stone paved ramparts to seaward sides, with 3 large reinforced concrete gun emplacements for very large sea-firing guns. Ammunition hoists and crew shelter appended to these. Older emplacements still exist on the west side. The ramparts are in rubble, but of small blocks and roughly laid in courses. Ancient monument no. 831.
Listing NGR: SX4334551282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61723
- 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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