Toward Battery

This magazine, the central of a row of three (see also NS16NW 16.04 & NS16NW 16.06), is a brick-built structure with an external cement render set on a substantial concrete raft and with a flat (0.15m thick) concrete roof. Rectangular on plan, it measures 5.70m from ENE to WSW by 4.22m transversely over walls 0.58m thick, with a central entrance (1.62m wide) and porch midway along the SSE side. The WSW, NNW and ENE walls of the magazine all contain vent-holes which contain (or have contained) galvanised steel louvered vents measuring about 0.22m broad and 0.19m in height and, where visible, bearing the legend ‘Robinson Patent’. In the NNW (rear) wall there are six vents, three set at a height of about 0.45m above the floor and three set about 0.2m below the roof. Each of the two side-walls has two vents, one upper and one lower set central to the wall. The entrance, which retains its door-frame but is missing its double wooden doors, is protected by a porch/blast wall with a gently sloping concrete roof (0.15m thick and set just below the level of the roof of the magazine), and is entered from the ENE. At the foot of the outside face of the wall of the magazine on the ENE, NNW and WSW there is shallow, U-shaped concrete drainage channel.

Visited by HES Survey and Recording (JRS, AK, AMcC) 20 October 2016.