HM Coastguard Lookout in Northern Fort Including Perimeter Wall
HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT IN NORTHERN FORT INCLUDING PERIMETER WALL, BERRY HEAD COUNTRY PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298254
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- HM Coastguard Lookout in Northern Fort Including Perimeter Wall
- Statutory Address:
- HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT IN NORTHERN FORT INCLUDING PERIMETER WALL, BERRY HEAD COUNTRY PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298254
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- HM Coastguard Lookout in Northern Fort Including Perimeter Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT IN NORTHERN FORT INCLUDING PERIMETER WALL, BERRY HEAD COUNTRY PARK
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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:
- HM COASTGUARD LOOKOUT IN NORTHERN FORT INCLUDING PERIMETER WALL, 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 94620 56570
Details
BRIXHAM
SX95NW BERRY HEAD COUNTRY PARK, Berry Head 1946-1/2/5 HM Coastguard lookout in northern fort including perimeter wall
GV II
Artillery magazine, now HM Coastguard lookout. Probably c1780, remodelled 1794-1802. Heightened in C20 to make the lookout. Stone rubble, the perimeter wall of coursed stone rubble with corner and gate piers of ashlar. Flat-topped roof, slated at the sides. Square building tightly enclosed by square perimeter wall. Entrance on east; blocked entrance on north. Appears to be single-storeyed. No openings except simple doorway on east side. Tall perimeter wall with square pier at each corner having a pyramidal cap. 2 matching gate piers in east wall, the flat arch of the door-head between them with well-cut voussoirs. Wall has a flat dressed coping, continued round the piers as an architrave to the caps. On top of it a chamfered added coping of stone rubble. On the north side a plain opening 3m wide, blocked by stone rubble. The walls contain a number of small cement-rendered apertures, probably Second World War gun-slits. The building was converted to a coastguard lookout in 1906 and further altered in 1963. (Exeter Musems Archaeological Field Unit Reports: Pye A R: Berry Head Fort, Brixham: 1990-: 20-21).
Listing NGR: SX9462056570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Report in Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit, (1990), 20-21
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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