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Latitude: 50.3997 / 50°23'58"N
Longitude: -3.484 / 3°29'2"W
OS Eastings: 294622
OS Northings: 56583
OS Grid: SX946565
Mapcode National: GBR QY.FBFP
Mapcode Global: FRA 37LZ.VXL
Plus Code: 9C2R9GX8+V9
Entry Name: Sentry Box in Northern Fort, Approximately 3 Metres North of HM Coastguard Lookout
Listing Date: 10 January 1975
Last Amended: 18 October 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1208199
English Heritage Legacy ID: 383526
ID on this website: 101208199
Location: Berry Head Country Park, Torbay, Devon, TQ5
County: Torbay
Civil Parish: Brixham
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Brixham All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Architectural structure Sentry box
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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