NHER 33897 (Monument record) - Warham dummy airfield World War Two control bunker

West of Garden Drove.
Bunker. Consists of tall (around 3m to 4m) mound of earth covering corrugated iron structure of rounded profile. Entrance to north (towards sea) between brick walls, now ruinous. Within chamber there remains a metal table fixed to the floor and a circular outlet at ground level. Above chamber is a lookout platform retaining handrails. At south end of chamber a metal door gives access to a cross passage open to the air and walled in brick. Beyond this is a second, similar but smaller, chamber containing two bases or stands formerly fed by pipes from water tanks remaining on top.
Large (around 1m diameter) ceramic pipe projects south at top of mound, and some distance to south a brick honeycomb grill at ground level. Structure is on south slope of hill, over crest from sea. Remarkably well preserved example of a type found elsewhere in area.
E. Rose (NLA), 22 October 1998.

English Heritage note; this is a K site decoy bunker. The smaller chamber housed the generators, the larger the control and stove: the lookout platform was in fact for shining a searchlight to imitate aircraft movements.
E. Rose (NLA), 23 October 2000.

The building is the control bunker for the Warham Q site (NHER 23142), a night time dummy airfield for RAF Langham, built summer 1944. The bunker had blast walls to the north and west entrances (the cross passage referred to), still partially roofed in 1970. The north chamber was the operations room, the south chamber the generator room. The 'lookout' platform was the mounting for the chance light - a decoy airfield searchlight.
See (S1) in file.
A. Miller (Suffolk County Council NMP)
D. Gurney (NLA), 13 February 2002.