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| HER Number: | MCO62397 |
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| Name: | PENDENNIS - C19 sling wagon shed |
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Summary
A pitched roofed shed seen in air photos of 1938 is identified on an annotated Ordnance Survey plan of 1910 as a Royal Artillery store. The form of the building suggests it was constructed before the adjacent quoined flat roofed structures dating from 1895-1911. The wide doors at the south end suggest it could have housed carriages. Its pitched roof and oculus are reminiscent of a shed at Fort Brockhurst at Gosport in Hampshire constructed in 1860 to house the sling wagon, a special carriage which was used to haul gun barrels about and up onto the terreplein. After its conversion for use as a Royal Artillery store it may have continued to house a wagon for the purpose of repository and moving heavy equipment such as breach
blocks, aiming rifles etc. The building was demolished between 1957 and 1964 after the site came into the guardianship of the Secretary of State.
Protected Status: None recorded
Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded
Monument Type(s):
Full description
A pitched roofed shed seen in air photos of 1938 is identified on an annotated Ordnance Survey plan of 1910 as a Royal Artillery store. The form of the building suggests it was constructed before the adjacent quoined flat roofed structures dating from 1895-1911. The wide doors at the south end suggest it could have housed carriages. Its pitched roof and oculus are reminiscent of a shed at Fort Brockhurst at Gosport in Hampshire constructed in 1860 to house the sling wagon, a special carriage which was used to haul gun barrels about and up onto the terreplein. After its conversion for use as a Royal Artillery store it may have continued to house a wagon for the purpose of repository and moving heavy equipment such as breach
blocks, aiming rifles etc. The building was demolished between 1957 and 1964 after the site came into the guardianship of the Secretary of State (1).
<1> Linzey, R, 2000, Fortress Falmouth. An conservation plan for the historic defences of Falmouth Haven Vol II (2000), site N8 (Cornwall Event Report). SCO1563.
Sources / Further Reading
| [1] | SCO1563 - Cornwall Event Report: Linzey, R. 2000. Fortress Falmouth. An conservation plan for the historic defences of Falmouth Haven Vol II (2000). site N8. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- ECO455 - Fortress Falmouth
Related records
| 18709 | Part of: PENDENNIS - Post Medieval fort (Monument) |
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