Gun emplacement 770m north-west of Knoll House Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 2012. Gun emplacement.

Gun emplacement 770m north-west of Knoll House Hotel

WRENN ID
stranded-kitchen-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 2012
Type
Gun emplacement
OS grid reference
SZ 027 840
Coordinates
50.65614, -1.96221
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gun emplacement located 770 meters north-west of Knoll House Hotel is a structure made of reinforced shuttered concrete and brick. The front chamber is square in plan and open-fronted, featuring a concrete canopy that projects forward, although it is now incomplete. The gun mounting is no longer visible. At the rear, there are two passageways that lead down steps to three underground rooms, likely used for ammunition storage, which have brick walls and ceilings made of shuttered concrete.

To the south-west of the gun emplacement, there is a trench with a winding shape, which is probably related to the use of Studland Heath as a military training area around 1942.

Local climate

Gun emplacement 770m north-west of Knoll House Hotel 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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