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
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1997
- Type
- Transmitter tower
- Address
- Chain Home Transmitter Tower, former RAF Stenigot, Manor Hill, Lincolnshire, Donington on Bain, LN11 9RH
- OS grid reference
- TF 256 825
- Coordinates
- 53.32502, -0.11447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chain Home Transmitter Tower, built in 1939 by Blaw Knox Ltd, is a significant radar transmitter tower that represents the first of three approved design variants (designated Group 1) created to the specifications of Air Ministry engineer Norman Garnish.
Constructed from bolted galvanised steel girders, the tower features steel ladders and platforms, with timber floor boarding on the platforms. It is supported by four concrete pads.
The tower has a rectangular plan and is located to the south of the transmitter block. It stands at a height of 360 feet (109.72 meters) and is designed as a self-supporting steel lattice structure with internal ladders and landing stages. Each corner of the tower has a foot resting on a concrete pad. There are two pairs of cantilevered platforms extending from the sides at heights of 50 feet (15.2 meters) and 200 feet (60.95 meters). A higher pair of platforms that was originally positioned at 350 feet (106.67 meters) has been removed.
Local climate
Chain Home Transmitter Tower, former RAF Stenigot sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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