Casemates and Sallyport

These casemates were completed by December 1808 being the first completed casemates of a larger fortification.

There are two casemated barracks with an adjacent casemated cook house. The casemates were positioned to flank a defensive ditch.

The casemates were linked to the larger fortification via a sallyport which was probably completed around the same time as the casemates. A report in 1858 noted that although the barracks were empty they could accommodate 21 men in each casemate.

By 1897 the casemates were being used as a makeshift Sergeants Mess with the cook house being used a mess kitchen, this lasted for two years before the Mess was moved into purpose built accommodation at the larger fortification.

A plan was then suggested for each casemate to accommodate 18 men each but this was quickly withdrawn and eventually the casemates were left abandoned.

Although the casemates have suffered from vandalism and nature part of the soldiers accoutrement shelf brackets can still be seen attached to the walls.