Toward Battery

Other than the vague impression that a hut may once have stood here, nothing is now visible in rough pasture of a building measuring approximately 9m from NE to SW by 5m transversely which is visible on a vertical aerial photograph taken in February 1941 (RAF 614.C). It is also depicted on a site-plan contained within the Fort Record Book (National Archives: WO 192/113) which indicates that it was one of a group of three building assigned as Officers’ Sleeping Quarters. Attached to the SE side of the building was an outshot, the remains of which measure about 5.8m in length from NW to SE by 2.5m in breadth. The lower, SE, part of this outshot is a concrete floor which a plan detailing the ‘Layout of Accommodation and Piping’ within the Toward Battery annotates as a ‘Boiler House’. The NW end of the outshot contained a toilet and now comprises a concrete pad (2.7m NW-SE by 2.5m) which stands on a hollow brick plinth 1.4m high at its SE end. There are the remains of a single thickness brick wall on the NE and SW edges of the concrete floor, residual traces of a brick partition wall and a hole in the floor leading down into a sewer pipe.

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