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North Sutor, Coast Battery
Engine House (First World War)
Site Name North Sutor, Coast Battery
Classification Engine House (First World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Fort North Sutor, Site No. 1
Canmore ID 364776
Site Number NH86NW 22.12
NGR NH 81844 68934
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/364776
- Council Highland
- Parish Nigg (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (26 March 2019)
Nothing can now be seen of this engine house which was introduced as part of the infrastructure of the battery by the Admiralty in World War I. It stood at the end of a track 17.5m S from the road leading to Site No.2 (NH86NE 9.48) and inside the security fence surrounding Site No.1 (NH86NW 9.51). It was rectangular on plan and measured about 11.5m from NE to SW by 8.5m transversely. A plan in the Fort Record Book held by the National Archives at Kew (WO78/5192-16/19) identifies it as a ‘Power House’, while a sketch map of the battery entitled ‘Telephone Circuits’ (ADM 7/942), dated 7 May 1919, confirms this. The building was originally protected by a massive earthwork or bund on the NE and SE measuring roughly 17.5m thick. This is depicted from the NW in a photograph taken on 28 March 1913 during the construction of the battery, which also shows that the engine house, itself, had yet to be built (SC1116243). This earthwork also protected its successor during the Second World War (NH86NW 9.13), but little trace of it can now be seen.
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK) 26 March 2019.
