NHER 23514 (Monument record) - World War Two Royal Navy pillbox and observation tower

April 1987. Visit.
Northwest corner of coastguard lookout tower.
Defensive position.
Rectangular brick with concrete roof, like typical 'Home Guard' type of pillbox, but taller and narrower and with splayed gunslits.
E. Rose (NAU), April 1987.

The coastguard tower itself is fortified and was formerly part of the coastal defence battery.
The small defensive structure is a Royal Navy pillbox. The underground chambers at NHER 24939 were connected.
See detailed report (S1) in file by [1].
E. Rose (NLA), 4 March 1997.

See record form (S1) in file by source [1], who adds: Unique Royal Naval pattern pillbox standing alongside coastguard tower. Dated 1940.
D. Walker (NLA), July 1996.

September 2002. Norfolk NMP.
The World War Two structures which are part of this site have been recorded under a larger number as part of NMP, NHER 26938. This site includes all the military defences, both temporary and permanent along this section of the Hunstanton coast and including the gun emplacements formerly recorded under NHER 24939.
S. Massey (NMP), 18 September 2002.

NGR amended from original TF 6766 4210 via GIS.
M. Horlock (NLA), 12 Decmber 2002.

December 2004. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Survey. Land based phase.
The Royal Navy pillbox was monitored (NHER 41012 context 7). World War Two brick and concrete pillbox. Reused as a service building. See (S2).
The tower was linked to gun emplacements via a tunnel (see NHER 24939).
A. Hunt (NMP) states the tower pre-dates the World War Two and is marked on the 1905 Ordnance Survey map (S3). See NHER 26938 for further details.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.421).
D. Robertson (NLA), 18 April 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2019.