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Freestanding irregular-plan three-bay two-storey blockhouse, built c.1550, redesigned in 1677 and recently rebuilt as store. Comprising D-plan former battery to seaward (north-east) side with the landward (south-west) side defended by two demy-bastions. Magazine with small entrance room to western bastion and platform to southern bastion. Formerly flat-roofed with rubble limestone chimneystack. Rubble limestone walls throughout. Camber-headed window openings having rubbed yellow brick voussoirs. Square-headed loop openings having internal chamfers. Camber-headed door opening having rubbed yellow brick voussoirs and recently inserted exposed timber lintels. Square-headed door opening to magazine, leading to camber-headed interior door opening having limestone rubble voussoirs. Vaulted roof to magazine and entrance bay.
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