Chain Home Transmitter Tower, former RAF Stenigot is a Grade II* listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1997. Transmitter tower.
Chain Home Transmitter Tower, former RAF Stenigot
- WRENN ID
- twisted-cupola-honey
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1997
- Type
- Transmitter tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A Chain Home radar transmitter tower of 1939, built by Blaw Knox ltd, the design is the first of three approved variants (designated Group 1) to the specifications produced by Air Ministry engineer Norman Garnish.
MATERIALS: the tower is built of bolted galvanised steel girders, with steel ladders and platforms. The platforms have timber floor boarding. The tower stands on four concrete pads.
PLAN: The tower is rectangular on plan, and stands to the south of the transmitter block.
EXTERIOR: a self-supporting 360 feet (109.72m) high steel lattice tower with internal ladders and landing stages. The tower has a foot at each corner, each sitting on a concrete pad. Two pairs of cantilevered platforms extend from the sides at 50 feet (15.2m) and 200 feet (60.95m). A higher pair of platforms originally located at 350 feet (106.67m) up the tower has been removed.
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