2 Defence Electric Light Emplacements to East of Link House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1988. Defence installation.
2 Defence Electric Light Emplacements to East of Link House
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1988
- Type
- Defence installation
- Address
- 2 Defence Electric Light Emplacements to East of Link House, Links Road, Blyth
- OS grid reference
- NZ 320 796
- Coordinates
- 55.11056, -1.49903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The two Defence Electric Light Emplacements, located to the east of Link House, were built between 1914 and 1919. Constructed from reinforced concrete and steel, with some brickwork, they are whitewashed and consist of two small rectangular buildings positioned 20 metres apart. Each building features a semi-octagonal projection at the seaward corner.
Both emplacements have a doorway and a boarded window on the landward side, machine gun loops on the other walls, and boarded openings with a curved section in the projection, supported by a heavy girder. The first emplacement (southern) has added brickwork above the girder level. The projections have flat roofs that are slightly lower than the low-pitched roof of the main structure.
These emplacements were designed to direct a beam produced by a parabola-ellipse reflector through a 0.1 metre slit between curved metal shutters, allowing them to illuminate a wide area of sea. They were operated by an Electric Light Officer from a director station at Link House Battery, located 300 metres to the south, and were powered by an engine house 50 metres to the west, which is now a public lavatory. These emplacements are a rare surviving example of a World War 1 coastal defence installation.
Local climate
2 Defence Electric Light Emplacements to East of Link House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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