Chain Home Transmitter Tower at former RAF Stoke Holy Cross is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 2024. A Modern Transmitter tower.
Chain Home Transmitter Tower at former RAF Stoke Holy Cross
- WRENN ID
- patient-joist-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 2024
- Type
- Transmitter tower
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- Chain Home Transmitter Tower at former RAF Stoke Holy Cross, Pine Loke, Norwich, Caistor St. Edmund and Bixley, NR14 8NR
- OS grid reference
- TG 257 027
- Coordinates
- 52.57603, 1.32994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chain Home transmitter tower at the former RAF Stoke Holy Cross was built in 1939 and designed by Norman Garnish. This self-supporting tower has a rectangular plan and is constructed from bolted galvanised steel, anchored to four concrete foundation pads. It stands approximately 110 meters tall. The single-storey huts at the base of the tower, along with cabling, modern equipment, and the perimeter fence, are not included in the listing.
Local climate
Chain Home Transmitter Tower at former RAF Stoke Holy Cross 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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