THE CITADEL, DISUSED BATTERY APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH EAST SOUTH OF SOUTH ENTRANCE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281857
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- Statutory Address:
- THE CITADEL, DISUSED BATTERY APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH EAST SOUTH OF SOUTH ENTRANCE, GLACIS
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE CITADEL, DISUSED BATTERY APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH EAST SOUTH OF SOUTH ENTRANCE, GLACIS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portland
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 69438 73259
Details
PORTLAND
SY6873 GLACIS, The Verne
969-1/3/170 (West side)
The Citadel, disused battery approx
150m SES of South Entrance
GV II
Disused artillery battery. Dated 1892 and 1898. Portland
stone, concrete, brick; tunnels roofed in earth and grass. A
large artillery complex outside the main confines of the
Verne, with 2 single emplacements and a run of 6 linked by
three tunnel runs, and based on series of entrenchments c 4.5
m wide; long N/S run c 120m dying out to north, 3 E/W arms,
and a projecting curved arm of c 55m running out at S/W limit.
Retaining walls to trenches in good ashlar, rough coursed
stone, or brick variously, and rising to c 1.6m on average. At
E end of northernmost arm, and at extreme of SW arm are single
emplacments in concrete and brick, with set of concrete steps
giving to trench; series of 6 emplacements to SE with flat
concrete top, linked by bridge to ramp, with narrow gauge
rails along top and to ramps, also in trench, passing into
tunnel entries N and S. The semicircular emplacements all have
two concentric rows of hexagonal-headed fixing bolts at base.
A cast concrete barrel-vaulted tunnel runs N/S in two
sections; that to N has pedimented arched entries set back in
raked revetments, all rendered, at each end, with square panel
to pediment inscribed VR 1892 over round arch with iron railed
openings. Middle section of tunnel has similar entries but to
flat parapet over segmental arch, down 8 steps to bricked-up
openings, dated VR 1898. Third tunnel runs in an arc W to E,
with 1892 pedimented entries as at north end. Near the S end
of the main N/S trench are two blockhouses, both to heavy
rock-faced stone quoins, and with flat roofs contained with
blocking of large Portland slabs over heavy square cornice,
all former door or window openings blocked. That to N is in
ashlar, and to S is scribed rendering. This was a substantial
emplacement, now outside the main body of The Verne
fortifications and freely accessible to pedestrians.
Listing NGR: SY6943873259
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381952
- 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.
End of official listing
