Listening Post 330 Metres of Wheatlands Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1986. Military structure.
Listening Post 330 Metres of Wheatlands Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- upper-banister-dew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Constituency
- Redcar MP: Anna Turley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1986
- Type
- Military structure
- OS grid reference
- NZ 614 229
- Coordinates
- 54.59805, -1.04991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Listening Post, built around 1916, is located 330 meters north of Wheatlands Farmhouse on the north side of Redcar Road. It is constructed from rough-rendered cast slag-concrete and features a "U"-shaped plan with walls approximately 4.5 meters high. The northeast face of the middle wall has a full-height and width circular concave depression that served as a reflector dish to concentrate sound waves towards a microphone, which is now missing and mounted on a wooden pole. The structure has ramped flanking walls and is situated on a flat plain, 1,200 meters from the North Sea coastline. It was designed to provide early warning of approaching enemy Zeppelins and other aircraft during World War I. At the time of the last survey, the render was peeling off the outer faces of the side walls, and the structure was disused and in a dilapidated condition.
Local climate
Listening Post 330 Metres of Wheatlands Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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