More information : (TA 4043 1137) Blockhouse, Easington
This irregular pentagonal 1st World War blockhouse is situated at the south west corner of the perimeter wall of the Spurn Point Battery. The main function of the blockhouse would be to protect the contemporary fire command tower, acting as a demi-bastion. The building was a single storey construction of rusticated concrete blocks, and had small embrasures. The site was plotted from aerial photographs dated 1950 by the Fortress Studies Group, the FSG also visited the site during the Holderness Survey in 1992 but found it to be totally destroyed.(1-1a)
The monument is also visible as an upstanding structure on air photographs examined as part of the Rapid Coastal Assessment Survey of the Yorkshire and Humber Estuary. (2)
This irregular pentagonal World War 1 blockhouse is situated at the southwest corner of the perimeter wall of the Spurn Point Battery. The main function of the blockhouse would be to protect the contemporary fire command tower, acting as a demi-bastion. The building was a single storey construction of rusticated concrete blocks, and had small embrasures. Destroyed by 1992. (3) |