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Latitude: 51.1725 / 51°10'21"N
Longitude: -4.6797 / 4°40'46"W
OS Eastings: 212772
OS Northings: 144892
OS Grid: SS127448
Mapcode National: GBR GTTL.96H
Mapcode Global: VH2S3.TSXH
Plus Code: 9C3Q58FC+24
Entry Name: Magazine and Privies About 15 Metres North East of Fog Signal Battery
Listing Date: 7 October 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1326648
English Heritage Legacy ID: 91988
ID on this website: 101326648
Location: Torridge, Devon, EX39
County: Devon
District: Torridge
Electoral Ward/Division: Clovelly Bay
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Lundy
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Architectural structure Missile Brigade Toilet Magazine (artillery)
LUNDY
SS14SW BATTERY POINT 1938-0/2/11 Magazine and Privies about 15 metres North East of Fog Signal Battery
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Magazine and attached privies serving fog signal battery. Circa 1861 for Trinity House. Dressed granite. Gabled roof, the privies now roofless, the magazine has barrel vaulted brick roof clad in slate. Overall rectangular plan. 2 attached privies on right (east) with wider (approx. square) integral magazine on left (west).
Exterior: 1 storey. 2 symmetrical gables at front (south) facing path down to Battery (qv). Under the right hand gable 2 privy doors, under the left hand gable a doorway to the magazine, all with granite lintels. The building is set on a bettered stone plinth on the cliff edge, its back facing the sea.
Interior: The W.C.s have been removed from the privies. The magazine is brick-lined, has a brick barrel-vaulted roof and a ventilation hole in the rear gable.
Note: The Old Lighthouse (qv) is situated at 470 feet above sea level and was often obscured by fog. In an attempt to solve the problem a fog signal battery (qv) was built in circa 1861 on cliffs below. The installation included cottages for the gunners (Battery Cottages qv) and this magazine and privies. In 1878 Trinity House substituted guncotton rockets for the guns and in 1881 it was even considered that the lower light of the Old Lighthouse should be moved to the Battery. Bells, hooters and whistles were also experimented with but The Old Lighthouse and Battery were eventually abandoned in 1897 when the North and South Lundy Lighthouses (qv) were built. (Lighthouses, their Architecture, History and Archaeology:D.B. Hague and R. Christie; LUNDY:A and M. Langham).
Listing NGR: SS1277244892
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