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Summary

A fortified enceinte with high banks protecting quarters of 'caretakers' who kept the nearby Steval and Woolpack batteries.

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 15438: LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY DEFENDED BARRACKS AND CARETAKER BLOCK AT GREYSTONES, THE GARRISON, ST MARY'S

Other References/Statuses

• National Mapping Programme (Morph No.): 60.2.3
• National Monuments Record: SV 81 SE 375
• National Record of the Historic Environment to Historic Environment Records data transfer
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1169937
• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 7908.05
• SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SV81SE 2

Monument Type(s):

• BARRACKS (19th Century to Edwardian - 1898 AD to 1906 AD)
• RADAR STATION (19th Century to Edwardian - 1898 AD to 1906 AD)

Full description

Prior to the 1994 revision of the Garrison defences SMR, this site was recorded under PRN 7423.10 (b7).
Group of late Victorian granite buildings in a subrectangular defended enclosure, located on the Hugh plateau roughly between Steval and Woolpack batteries (7908.04 and 7908.06), the caretaker's houses/barracks which served them. Shown unnamed on 1907 OS 1:2500 (b1) as on the modern OS 1:2500, the latter naming it 'Greystones' (b3). Now a private residence (b4). The site was visited and recorded by Linzey for EH as a fortified enceinte with high banks protecting quarters of 'caretakers' who kept batteries in readiness. The house, divided into married quarters, each with two bedrooms and a living room; kitchen and ablution facilities shared. Capable of conversion to barracks for 24 men and two NCOs in time of war, hence the ramparts. There would have been a barbed wire entanglement between the rampart and the concentric bank. Linzey recommends that good survival of this unusual and important caretaker's accommodation warrants Listing the building as Grade II and Scheduling the ramparts (h2, b5). A plan, elevations and sections drawn in 1901 show buildings with flat roofs supported by roof support joists. A separate range to the north west contained men's and women's separate earth closets, urinals, dry earth store and wood store (b6). The monument was included in the Schedule on 1/8/1996. The site is visible on aerial photographs (p1) and was plotted as part of the NMP.

See also (7, 8).

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Site history:
1: 1984. MSC TEAM/ICS
2: 1993. LINZEY, D/EH
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National Monument Record, Defending the Isles of Scilly (Survey). SCO29941.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1900s, 2nd Edition 1:2500 Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4050.

CAU, 1987, CAU/F14/106,149 (Photographic Record). SCO17007.

<2> O'Neil, BH St J, 1961, Isles of Scilly MOW Guide, 37 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4042.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1970s, 1:10,000 OS Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4045.

<4> STEVENSON, IV, 1989, SOME WEST COUNTRY DEFENCES, VOL 17, 23 (Unedited Source). SCO8918.

<5> LINZEY, D, 1994, RECS FOR INCREASING STAT PROTECTION TO WOOLPACK AND STEVAL BATTERIES (Unedited Source). SCO8994.

<6> KENNEY, AH, 1902, STEVAL AND WOOLPACK BATTERIES RECORD PLANS (Unedited Source). SCO6901.

<7> Brodie, A, 2011, The Garrison, St Mary's Isles of Scilly: The Defences of the Garrison 1500-1945 - survey report, 57-62 (Bibliographic reference). SCO24047.

<8> Bowden, M and Brodie, A, 2011, Defending Scilly, 55-63 (Bibliographic reference). SCO29932.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• ECO3128 - Garrison Walls, Isles of Scilly, conservation plan
• ECO3819 - Isles of Scilly Military Defences, 1540-1951 (Ref: RDRS 56-2011)
• ECO6309 - The Garrison, St. Mary's: Survey

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