battery — Bere Island

Freestanding irregular-plan former redoubt, built 1904, comprising earthen banks, revetment and interior buildings. Now in use as military training ground. Revetment comprising roughcast rendered battered walls having rendered flights of steps with render, steel and wrought-iron railing parapet and beat area above revetment buildings to east, south and west. East and west buildings comprise round-headed openings with red brick surrounds, timber tympanums having timber louvres and vents, timber battened doors and rendered sills to tympanums. Square-headed door openings to east and west. Round-headed door opening to south. Redoubt entrance to north. Eleven-bay single-storey building to north-west of interior, having chamfered north-east corner and single-bay break front. Flat rendered roof with render and red brick parapet, rendered eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls. Square-headed blocked openings with chamfered rendered sills, rendered lintels and cast-iron window guards. Square-headed door opening with single and double-leaf timber battened doors, blocked overlights and chamfered rendered lintels. Building accessed by rendered flight of steps. Four-bay single-storey lookout to south-east beat area having single-bay break front (north-west) and canted bay (south-east). Rendered flat roof with rendered parapet and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with red brick vertical plat bands. Square-headed openings with rendered sills, timber casement windows and cast-iron window guards. Square-headed door opening with timber frame. Timber beam ceiling to interior. Later steel construction to west beat area having rendered walls with rounded coping and wrought-iron gate. Recent corrugated-iron mono-pitched store to south. Low rectangular platform to centre of beat area.