North Sutor, Coast Battery
Bath House (Second World War)
Site Name North Sutor, Coast Battery
Classification Bath House (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences, Fort North Sutor, Site No. 1
Canmore ID 364207
Site Number NH86NW 9.95
NGR NH 81914 68946
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/364207
- 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)
This building, which formed part of the camp introduced by the Army to sustain the battery during the Second World War, is situated 5.9m ENE of the Sergeants Mess (NH86NW 9.94). Only the WSW wall, measuring 0.2m thick and 0.2m high, survives and its NNW end is overlain by debris. However, this is associated with a parch mark which indicates that it was rectangular on plan and measured originally about 6.9m from NNW to SSE by 5.6m transversely. A grass-grown mound 3.5m in diameter and 1m high overlies its SSE end-wall.
The building is annotated ‘Bath House’ on an undated sketch map entitled ‘Layout of Fort North Sutor’ within the Fort Record Book held in the National Archives at Kew (WO192/248). It is also depicted on two RAF aerial photographs (106G/RAF/0751/6039-40) flown on 31 August 1945
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK), 26 March 2019.
