First World War pillbox, Howden's Pullover is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 2017. Pillbox.
First World War pillbox, Howden's Pullover
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-corridor-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 2017
- Type
- Pillbox
- Address
- First World War pillbox, Howden's Pullover, Sea Bank, Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, Skidbrooke with Saltfleet Haven, LN11 7RP
- OS grid reference
- TF 449 950
- Coordinates
- 53.43263, 0.18109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This First World War pillbox was built in 1917 and is constructed from concrete reinforced with expanded metal lath sheeting and steel rails. The concrete was poured in place using timber shuttering on the inside and sandbag shuttering on the outside, giving it a rusticated appearance.
The pillbox has a single cell with a trapezoidal shape. The northeast elevation, facing the sea, is blind and convex. Both the northwest and southeast elevations feature a single, low-set, wide-splayed machine gun embrasure. The rear of the structure has a single rebated doorway that is mostly blocked.
Access to the interior is currently blocked and filled with sand. Inside, the walls are made of smooth whitewashed concrete, showing marks from horizontal plank shuttering and rectangular wooden plugs in the side walls, likely used for attaching the shuttering. Only the top surfaces of the gun embrasures on the northwest and southeast walls can be seen. The internal face of the northeast wall is angled up to the ceiling, following the slope of the exterior and maintaining the wall's thickness.
Local climate
First World War pillbox, Howden's Pullover receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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