Buried Reserve and Pillbox, former Swingate Chain Home Radar Station

Swingate Chain Home Radar Station occupies a prominent clifftop location approximately 2km north-east of Dover. The site, encompassing around 21 hectares, includes a transmitter site, receiver site, and several related structures and features. The transmitter and receiver sites are separately listed.

This description refers to two buried reserve chambers and a pillbox located on the site. The buried reserves, one for a transmitter and one for a receiver, are brick-built chambers that remain intact underground, capped by the Ministry of Defence for safety. Each chamber was accessed by stairs at one end and had an escape exit from a main operating room at the other. They also contained a room for air conditioning equipment, a toilet, and a rest area for personnel. A gas lock protected the access from the staircase to the operations room. Above ground, the buried reserves are visible as rectangular concrete pads. One pad shows the remains of sliding rails, likely used to move the original entrance hatch. Each reserve would have been served by a tower, originally 120 feet (36.5 metres) high, of which the bases remain as four square concrete feet (approximately 2 metres square), each with a projecting steel fixing beam. The tower for the northern buried reserve is situated to the south-east of its buried reserve, while the southern reserve's tower is to its east.

The pillbox is of irregular hexagonal plan, constructed from yellow brick and reinforced concrete. A circular Light Anti-Aircraft Gun position, also in yellow brick, is present on its roof. The entrance and embrasures have since been bricked up, though the concrete lintels remain visible. It is understood that the radar station once had another pillbox, which is no longer present.