Anti-tank pimples is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 2012. Military structure.
Anti-tank pimples
- WRENN ID
- high-lead-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 2012
- Type
- Military structure
- OS grid reference
- SZ 035 830
- Coordinates
- 50.64678, -1.95121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a line of anti-tank pimples made of concrete, oriented from north-west to south-east, situated across a small valley. There are five pimples on the north side of the valley and fifteen on the south side. Among these, two are double cubes, and an additional two have fallen into the gully and are broken. Each cube measures 1.2 meters wide and typically projects about 1.5 meters from the ground, featuring a low pointed pyramid top.
Local climate
Anti-tank pimples receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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