Browndown Battery
BROWNDOWN BATTERY, BROWNDOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232657
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Browndown Battery
- Statutory Address:
- BROWNDOWN BATTERY, BROWNDOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232657
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Browndown Battery
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROWNDOWN BATTERY, BROWNDOWN ROAD
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:
- BROWNDOWN BATTERY, BROWNDOWN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Gosport (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 58264 98925
Details
In the entry for BROWNDOWN ROAD Battery No 1 3/9 (Browndown Battery)
The address shall be amended to read BROWNDOWN ROAD Browndown Battery
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BROWNDOWN ROAD 1. 5232 Battery No 1 (Browndown Battery) SZ 59 NE 3/9 II Circa 1888/89. The structure, of brick and concrete, makes provision for 2 large guns, and a rearward control point on the west side. The concrete front to the emplacements slopes upwards to the rim of the V-shaped gun pit. There is ground floor accommodation underneath the rear of each platform, between which is a central ammunition store, with a more heavily protected roof. Although incomplete and derelict, there is a survival of many detailed features (steps, cupboards, channels, metal fixtures, railings etc), to indicate the scale and type of armament. The south face (towards the fleet anchorage) is protected by a sloping earthwork; on the north inner side is a yard, with a high brick wall on its northern boundary.
Listing NGR: SU6023198804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408049
- 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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