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Detached rectangular-plan two-storey rubble limestone fortification, built c.1650, converted c.1805 for use as battery, having round turrets to south-west and south-east corners and curved corners at north-west and north-east. Now disused. Battered base to south-east corner tower. Surrounded to east, south and west by stone-lined moat. Dressed limestone parapet and coping. Camber-arch door opening to south elevation with yellow brick voussoirs and reveals, and having timber fittings. Square-headed window openings to east elevation, with yellow brick jambs and limestone sills. Narrower windows elsehwere with bars.
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