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Built as a guard house along river road to battery site at River Teign entrance. Had searchlight on top. Now used as a domestic building.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/11/22)
Guardhouse and searchlight position. The duty guard slept on the ground floor - at Shaldon House there was a gate across the road, manned by a sentry whose post was attached to a brick built machine gun house on the beach side of Marine Parade (this structure was demolished shortly after the war). On the first floor there was a coastal searchlight (210 million candle power): its origin was an anti-aircraft searchlight.
(Source: Field Visit 2001/05)
| Official Name | Shaldon Battery |
|---|---|
| Type of site | BEACH DEFENCE LIGHT |
| Location | In grounds of Shaldon House, Marine Parade, Shaldon. |
| Area |
Shaldon, Devon, England |
| Grid reference |
SX 9369 7212
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Good |
| Materials | Clay Brick, Concrete |
| Recorder | Jury, Richard |
| Defence grouping |
Devon coast defences - Defences of the Devon coastal crust. |
| Photographs |
(4) - site and exterior views (2 DIGITISED). |
| DOB site reference: | S0006516 |
| Associated Identifier | Devon SMR (ref: SX97SW/184/5) |
| Reference |
1995 Shaldon 1939-45 |
| Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/11/22 |
