NHER 42477 (Monument record) - World War Two military structures at Winterton on Sea

January 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two huts and a building platform are visible as extant structures on aerial photographs (S1)-(S4), centred at TG 4961 1948. Their general character and their proximity to several World War Two military sites (e.g. NHER 42452 approximately 90m to the northeast) suggests that they are probably contemporary structures also associated with the military presence in the area. They are first visible on aerial photographs taken in May 1944 (S1). The northernmost hut (at TG 4960 1950) stood immediately to the north of a probable fishing hut (not mapped). The hut itself is barely visible but the concrete platform on which it stood is clear on aerial photographs taken in 1945 and later (S2)-(S3), by which time it had been removed. The hut to its southeast (at TG 4963 1948) had a curved or polygonal profile in section and may have been a Nissen hut. It too had been removed by September 1945 (S3) when its concrete base is visible. To the south (at TG 4962 1946) was a concrete platform, partially overgrown by vegetation. This too may have supported a hut but none is visible on the consulted aerial photographs. There is no trace of the site on aerial photographs taken in 2002 (S4).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 31 January 2006.