SENTRY BOX IN NORTHERN FORT, APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES NORTH OF HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT

SENTRY BOX IN NORTHERN FORT, APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES NORTH OF HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT, BERRY HEAD COUNTRY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208199
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: SENTRY BOX IN NORTHERN FORT, APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES NORTH OF HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT
Statutory Address:: SENTRY BOX IN NORTHERN FORT, APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES NORTH OF HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT, BERRY HEAD COUNTRY PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208199
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: SENTRY BOX IN NORTHERN FORT, APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES NORTH OF HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT
Statutory Address 1:: SENTRY BOX IN NORTHERN FORT, APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES NORTH OF HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT, BERRY HEAD COUNTRY PARK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SENTRY BOX IN NORTHERN FORT, APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES NORTH OF HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT, BERRY HEAD COUNTRY PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brixham
National Grid Reference:: SX 94622 56583

Details

BRIXHAM

SX95NW BERRY HEAD COUNTRY PARK, Berry Head 1946-1/2/12 Sentry box in northern fort, approx. 10/01/75 3m N of HM Coastguard lookout (Formerly Listed as: BERRY HEAD COMMON Berry Head Fort, Sentry Box)

GV II

Sentry box. c1780 or 1794-8. Coursed limestone rubble. Low pyramidal stone slab roof. Small octagonal building with 4 open-fronted, triangular recesses for sentries. 1 storey. The 4 plain doorways have flat limestone lintels. No windows, but a small square aperture in each of the stone partition walls links one sentry to another; these contain wooden frames, rebated as if for glass. Recesses have stone-flagged floors. The building has a projecting plinth and the stone roof-slabs project slightly in the manner of an eaves-cornice. Although the defences of the northern fort date from 1795-1804, a battery and magazine were established at the tip of Berry Head in 1770-80 during the American War of Independence. The magazine is probably of this date and the sentry box appears to relate to a blocked doorway in its north wall. (Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Reports: Pye A R: Berry Head Fort, Brixham: 1990-: 21-22).

Listing NGR: SX9462256583

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Legacy System number:: 383526
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Report' in Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit, (1990), 21-22

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.