Toward Battery

All that is now visible of this building in rough pasture is a stance measuring about 10m square defined by a low, SE-facing scarp on the SE and a shallow cut on the NW where the stance has been let into the natural slope. The building is visible on wartime vertical aerial photographs as well as being depicted on site-plans contained within the Fort Record Book (National Archives: WO 192/113) which indicate its use as a ‘Sergeant’s Mess’. The mess was actually two timber huts with pitched roofs, each measuring about 10m in length from NE to SW by 5m in breadth, which were attached side-by-side. One of the site-plans indicates that the NW part of the mess had a doorway in its SW end, served by a path, and the SE part had a doorway in its NE end, also served by a path.

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