RAF Stoke Holy Cross Receiver Reserve is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 2024. Buried reserve receiver block.

RAF Stoke Holy Cross Receiver Reserve

WRENN ID
dusk-frieze-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 August 2024
Type
Buried reserve receiver block
Address
RAF Stoke Holy Cross Receiver Reserve, Upper Stoke, Caistor St. Edmund and Bixley, NR14 8RF
OS grid reference
TG 255 027
Coordinates
52.576, 1.32691
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The RAF Stoke Holy Cross Receiver Reserve is a buried reserve receiver block built in 1939 according to an Air Ministry design. It is constructed from brick and capped with concrete and earth.

The layout includes a stairwell that leads into an operations room through a gas lock. From the operations room, there are rooms for an air conditioning plant and a latrine. An emergency exit provides access to a ladder and hatch at the opposite end of the operations room.

On the exterior, the buried reserve features a concrete plinth with two concrete hatches on rollers, which are now buried. There are also two ventilator shafts, both missing caps, located to the east of the entrance hatches. Additionally, the four bases of the reserve transmitter tower are situated to the north.

The interior was inaccessible during the assessment in 2023 because the entrance to the buried reserve has been sealed.

Local climate

RAF Stoke Holy Cross Receiver Reserve 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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