1977 Hougham Battery - 3 x 8in guns. Coast defence battery. Much of site buried by spoil from 1970s Channel Tunnel attempt. Ammunition site seems to survive above ground. Many concrete hut bases buried/destroyed during construction of new A20. Plotting room is just to S of A20 road.
05/2000 Coastal battery. One 8in gun emplacement remains and is virtually entirely buried. Other emplacements have been destroyed in landscaping. Three buildings remain immediately to the N (100m) , and there are also a further three buildings visible at the cliff face. A part-buried structure is 550m to the ESE at the cliff edge.
Two partially protected rectilinear buildings lie 200m to the W. Battery also shares protected structures with Lydden Spout Battery (see UORN 9173). (information from 1983 aerial photographs).