Black Holt former Atomic Bomb Store: Component Testing Building is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 2020. Industrial building.
Black Holt former Atomic Bomb Store: Component Testing Building
- WRENN ID
- ghost-postern-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 2020
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Black Holt former Atomic Bomb Store: Component Testing Building, Langrick Road, Coningsby, Lincolnshire, LN4 4RT
- OS grid reference
- TF 242 577
- Coordinates
- 53.10268, -0.14485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Holt former Atomic Bomb Store's Component Testing Building is a mounded and reinforced concrete structure dating from the 1950s. It is constructed from reinforced concrete, painted brick, earth, and turf.
The building is semi-buried beneath a large earth mound, with a roughly rectangular interior space divided into three main sections. The exterior is largely obscured by the earthen mound, and access to the main space is from the north via a track leading to a timber boarded double leaf door with a wicket.
Inside, an unburied section features top lighting from profiled sheet roofing, and the walls are made of painted brick. The interior is divided by a spine wall with flat-headed openings. Beyond this wall is the buried section, which contains test bays at the rear, separated by brick columns with corbelled capitals that support deep steel beams in an I profile. A hydrometer is located in the end bay, and an office is situated at the north end of the building.
Local climate
Black Holt former Atomic Bomb Store: Component Testing Building sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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