Dunkirk Radar Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. Radar tower. 4 related planning applications.
Dunkirk Radar Tower
- WRENN ID
- endless-casement-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Radar tower
- Address
- Dunkirk Radar Tower, ME13 9LH
- OS grid reference
- TR 078 590
- Coordinates
- 51.29273, 0.97918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dunkirk Radar Tower is a Grade II listed Chain Home transmitter tower built in 1937. It is made of galvanised steel and is now truncated. This radar station in Dunkirk, Kent, was part of a network of Chain Home radar stations that stretched from the south coast of England to the east of Scotland. Dunkirk is one of only five sites that have retained any of their original towers. The transmitter tower is the best-preserved example still in place in England, following the listed towers at Bawdsey in Suffolk and Stenigot in Lincolnshire. This site is one of the most historically significant radar locations in England, having played a crucial role in Britain's air defence during the Second World War, particularly during the Battle of Britain. The Bofors Tower at the site is also listed as Grade II, and other parts of the complex are protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. For further historical details, refer to the description of the Bofors Tower and the Scheduled Monument Assessment.
Local climate
Dunkirk Radar Tower 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Transmitter Tower (tower 2), Transmitter site, former Swingate Chain Home Radar Station
- 2 Bofors tower approximately 500 metres north north west of Christ Church
- 3 Transmitter Block at Tm 3412 3828, Bawdsey Manor
- 4 Transmitter Block at Tf 2565 8265, Former Raf Stenigot
- 5 Chain Home Transmitter Tower at former RAF Stoke Holy Cross
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