1939-1945 Gun Store, Beacon Hill Fort, Harwich.
A rectangular brick building measuring, 27ft x 13ft 1in externally with a concrete floor and flat concrete roof with a thin asphalt coating. The doors and windows have concrete lintels. The building has two rooms divided by a solid wall, each room a mirror image of the other measuring, 12ft x 10ft. Both have large metal stable-type doors in the south-east elevation, 3ft 7in wide x 7ft 4in high, and a gap along the base of each door may have once been gridded for ventilation.
Each room also has a window, 3ft 7in wide x 2ft 11in high, in the same wall. The interior is painted creamy-orange and marks along the north-west wall are from tables or shelves. The broken ends of electric cables are also present and there were pot-bellied stoves, apparently secondary insertions, against the end walls. A small single ceiling ventilator survives in the centre of each room. A cutting in the bank immediately north of the gun store was for a single storey hut visible on aerial photographs and detailed in the Fort Book Plan of 1945. A large pile of material behind this hut is visible on aerial photographs, but it is of unknown significance.
1939-1945 Gun Store, Beacon Hill Fort, Harwich.
A rectangular brick building measuring, 27ft x 13ft 1in externally with a concrete floor and flat concrete roof with a thin asphalt coating. The doors and windows have concrete lintels. The building has two rooms divided by a solid wall, each room a mirror image of the other measuring, 12ft x 10ft. Both have large metal stable-type doors in the south-east elevation, 3ft 7in wide x 7ft 4in high, and a gap along the base of each door may have once been gridded for ventilation.
Each room also has a window, 3ft 7in wide x 2ft 11in high, in the same wall. The interior is painted creamy-orange and marks along the north-west wall are from tables or shelves. The broken ends of electric cables are also present and there were pot-bellied stoves, apparently secondary insertions, against the end walls. A small single ceiling ventilator survives in the centre of each room. A cutting in the bank immediately north of the gun store was for a single storey hut visible on aerial photographs and detailed in the Fort Book Plan of 1945. A large pile of material behind this hut is visible on aerial photographs, but it is of unknown significance.