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This is an unusually shaped pillbox designed in a crescent shape. It has 4 embrasures on its longest side that faces the beach, one embrasure in the rear wall and one smaller embrasure in the short wall opposite the entrance. Roof is 11ins thick with 78ins headroom inside pillbox. Entrance protected by a detached outer blast wall with an embrasure. Blast wall 19ins thick, 60ins high and 56ins wide. It is 98ins wide inside with 4 inner steps at entrance. Front wall is 24ins thick. There are two very similar shaped pillboxes defending Sennen Cove Beach a few miles from Porthcurno on the North Cornwall coast. These pillboxes were also defending a Cable HQ.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/09/25)
Curving rectangular structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1963)
Very fine curving pillbox structure made of concrete blocks. Four square embrasures in wall facing beach (E) and two more in S wall. Loopholed detached blast wall. Three steps down to entrance (N end). An important structure in very good condition. Access possible to interior. Very close to edge of cliff.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/20)
Type of site | PILLBOX (VARIANT) |
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Location | Sited on W cliff side of Porthcurno Beach. |
Area |
St. Levan, Cornwall, England |
Grid reference |
SW 38638 22295
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1963)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Concrete Block, Reinforced Concrete |
Threats |
Type: Coastal erosion (Medium Term) Detail: The pillbox is very close to the edge of a cliff, and further erosion will destroy it. |
Recorder | Harvey, Alwyn (Fortress Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
Cornwall coast defences - Defences of the Cornwall coastal crust. |
Attached Sheets | (2) - sheets with photos attached. |
Photographs |
(5) - 3 exterior, 2 interior. |
Adjacent sites | 9 other pillboxes defending Porthcurno. |
DOB site reference: | S0003272 |
Original Reference | 8691 |
Event |
Field Visit, On 1996/09/25 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, During 2001 Field Visit, On 2003/01/20 |