2016

TG3420 : Old generator house

taken 8 years ago, near to Neatishead, Norfolk, England

Old generator house
Old generator house
Although it may at first seem to be a chapel, at least from a distance, the looks of this building are deliberately deceiving. It was a military building serving the radar station at nearby RAF Neatishead, housing the emergency generators.
ROTOR Radar station standby generator house

This is a rare surviving and Grade II listed example of an early 1950s Rotor period radar standby generator house.

According to the listing text this standby generator house which used to serve RAF Neatishead is a brick-built structure consisting of a rectangular, double height generator hall with a tower attached to one end. The pantiled roofs over the hall and tower are steeply pitched, with the main roof sweeping down to form a catslide over a small porch like projection at one corner. The main entrance with access to the generator hall was through high double doors adjacent to a projecting brick flue. On the other side of the flue the two-storey belfry-like tower adjoins. It has a pair of wooden planked doors on the ground floor and a large opening with double doors higher up. At the gable end a row of four air-tile vents can be seen and further openings, all providing ventilation to the generator hall, are set into the side walls. Massive reinforced concrete beams supporting a gantry crane complete with lifting tackle divided the generator hall into four bays. The roof above is described as being of a simple coupled rafter construction. The generator and transformers have long since been removed, after which time the building was used for farm storage. (Source: Cocroft, W D & Thomas, R J C, Cold War. Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989, English Heritage).

The RRH (Remote Radar Head) Neatishead is the world’s longest continuously operating radar site and still an active radar station, providing radar, ground-to-air radio and data links coverage as part of the UK Air Surveillance And Control System (ASACS), in support of national and NATO air defence > Link. The adjoining RAF Radar Air Defence Museum > Link which is housed in one of the now obsolete buildings provides a unique window into the history of radar.


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Geographical Context: Defence, Military
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TG3420, 32 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Evelyn Simak   (more nearby)
Date Taken
April 2016   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TG 3438 2007 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:43.6470N 1:28.1798E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TG 3440 2005
View Direction
Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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