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Freestanding irregular-plan battery, built 1904. Earthen, natural rock and rendered construction comprising east, central and west gun posts (south) with interior buildings and enclosing ditch. Now disused. Gun posts having gun fixings (centre and east) accessed by rendered walkways and flights of steps. Cast-iron railing and wall fixings to gun posts. Entrance (north) through walkway cut into natural rock outcrop. Interior central attached fifteen-bay single-storey building with flanking flights of steps (east and west). Red brick and rendered walls. Flat roof with rendered parapet, coping stones and cast-iron railing accommodating walkway. Square-headed openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, concrete sills and cast-iron window guards. Square-headed door openings. Central segmental-headed door opening. Five-bay single-storey lookout to north-east of interior having bow-fronted north elevation. Flat chamfered rendered roof with rendered eaves course. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with cast-iron window guards. Square-headed splayed openings to north elevation. Square-headed door opening. Shower block to west of lookout comprising rendered and red brick walls.
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