Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585768

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