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Freestanding circular-plan battery, built 1804, having military barracks, magazine and cast-iron water pump to interior. Now in ruins. Redoubt comprises circular-plan rubble stone lined ditch with parapet and accommodation for front-pivoted traversing carriages and banquette. Interior accessed by timber drawbridge with cast-iron railing, to north-east. Three structures to interior, two twelve-bay single-storey accommodation blocks to north-east and one nine-bay single-storey magazine to south-west. Hipped slate roofs, with rendered red brick chimneystacks to north-east accommodation block. Rubble stone and rendered walls with dressed quoins. Camber-headed openings with limestone sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds. Some openings blocked with red brick. Camber-headed door opening with timber battened doors and red brick block-and-start surrounds. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west having rubble stone walls and square-headed door openings. Freestanding cast-iron water pump to south-east of central structure with fluted shaft, ram's head bucket grip to spout, handle fixings, inscription and bench mark.
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