Eastern air raid shelter at Carrow Works is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 2021. Air raid shelter.
Eastern air raid shelter at Carrow Works
- WRENN ID
- mired-gravel-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 2021
- Type
- Air raid shelter
- Address
- Eastern air raid shelter at Carrow Works, NR1 2DD
- OS grid reference
- TG 241 074
- Coordinates
- 52.61861, 1.30977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Eastern air raid shelter at Carrow Works is a purpose-built tunnel constructed in 1939.
The shelter features shuttered concrete entrance portals and is walled in corrugated steel, supported by additional structural steel ribs. It has a horseshoe-shaped plan with entrances and exits at each end.
The exterior includes rounded openings that are filled with later 20th-century wooden doorways, set into shuttered concrete surrounds.
Inside, the north-south tunnels are narrower and formed from ribs with a rectangular section rather than a semi-circular one. This section widens at the south-eastern corner to connect with the east-west tunnel and to accommodate a block of lavatory cubicles. The east-west tunnel is reinforced by timber posts and three brick walls laid in English bond.
There are seven women's lavatories located at the south-eastern corner and eleven men's stalls along the south side of the east-west tunnel, marked by painted signs. The cubicles are made of pine with simple canvas-covered doors and feature hinged wooden benches with holes, under which a bucket could be placed.
The wider south tunnel and the south-eastern corner include concrete bases for perimeter benches, with the wooden seat still remaining at the south-west corner.
Local climate
Eastern air raid shelter at Carrow Works sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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