Fort Belan - Architecture

Architecture

The fort's innermost buildings are slightly taller than the 20 ft (6.1 m) tall stone walls. In the centre of the fort is a sheltered, quadrangle; at one time, there were peacocks here. Fortified towers are located at either end of the courtyard. Each of the towers displays the two-headed eagle of the first Lord Newborough. Small two-storey houses that were used as officer and privates' quarters line the flanks, commodious barracks for the Caernarvonshire county militia. Approximately 24 cannons form a gun battery along the walls. One of the inner corridors is said to be the haunt of a phantom nursemaid.

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