Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Defence of the Realm - Penarth Head Fort and Coastal Battery . . .

Plan of Penarth Head Battery & Artillery House, Glamorganshire. The plan was attached to the Prospectus relating to the auction sale of same.

Concrete Gun Emplacements (Guns dismantled) with Officer's and Men's Shelters and 18 Shell Recesses fitted Steel Doors. Beneath the foregoing are a group of Rooms, approached by two steel stairways, comprising Shell and Cartridge Stores, 83ft. x 20ft. 6ins., fitted with Shell and Cartridge Hoists and Lamp Recesses ; Store Room, 47ft. x 14ft., with wood block floor and faced with white glazed bricks ; Ablution Room : Lamp and Paint Stores.

To the South of the foregoing emplacement a series of reinforced concrete steps with steel handrails lead down the cliff face to a similarly constructed staging on the foreshore supporting

Two Steel Searchlight Emplacements (now gutted) :

Battery Commander's Post comprises a brick built and cemented Tower 20ft. x 11ft. 3in. x 26ft.high, containing on the ground floor and first floors three small telephone rooms and battery room, on the top floor a large Observation Post with hinged and shuttered windows. Access is obtained to the first and top floors by means of outside stairways.

Power House (Plant dismantled). A brick built and reinforced concrete flat roofed structure containing Workshop, 7ft. x 9ft. ; Engine Room, 22ft. x 16ft. ; Accumulator Room, 16ft. x 11ft. ; Mechanic's Machine Store, 16ft. x 16ft. ; Group of brick built Urinals and W.C.'s ; timber framed and galvanised Cook House, 12ft. x 10ft. x 9 ft., fitted with Cooker ; adjoining is a similarly constructed timber Rack and timber built Coal Store 20ft. x 9ft. x 9ft.