Pier Road and Hobb's Point
Many of the buildings along Pier Road originally formed part of the army’s ordnance depot and were specifically built for that purpose. Units 1 to 7 comprise a row of stables, originally two storey but now single storey, dating from the days of the hutted encampment in the 1850s.
Units 8 and 9 are stores built in 1940, and Unit 10 is a carriage shed dating from 1915. Units 11 to 14 comprise a row of two-storey stables, originally attached to the adjacent three-storey Royal Hotel of the 1830s but later requisitioned by the local garrison - as was the hotel which was used by the Royal Engineers while planning the building of the Haven’s fortifications. Other buildings in Pier Road include several single-storey military storehouses, some dating from 1860 and others dating from the First World War and built in connection with a railway spur which once ran along here from the town station to a jetty. These latter storehouses had their own railway platform, that can be seen near Asda petrol station.
Hobb’s Point is a limestone quay with granite copings built in the 1830s for the Irish packet trade. This proved short-lived, and it was later used as a fitting out quay for the Royal Dockyard, complete with shear-legs. The bollards on the quay are Swedish 30-pounder cannons, captured from a French warship during the Napoleonic Wars; it was common practice to use captured guns as bollards on Admiralty quays.
A Swedish 30-pounder cannon at Hobb's Point. it was first captured by the French before being subsequently captured by the Royal Navy
Kelpie’s was originally built for the Navy but was later used by the Royal Artillery District Establishment which was responsible for maintaining the guns on the forts around the Haven, The walled compound to the east of Kelpie’s was originally a coal store.
A stone showing the demarkation between War Department and Admiralty land at Hobb's Point
