'Timeless' BT Tower to be listed

12 April 2012

London's BT Tower is among eight communications structures likely to be listed as icons of post-war communications technology.

The 620ft building, still commonly referred to as the Post Office Tower, has been hailed as architecturally and historically important by English Heritage. Constructed between 1961 and 1965 as the first purpose-built tower to transmit high-frequency radio waves, its cylindrical shape was designed to reduce wind resistance.

Tallest on the list which the quango has submitted to Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is the 900ft Emley Moor ITV mast in the Pennines. Among the other structures are the lighthouse at Dungeness and the Equatorial Telescopes at Herstmonceaux.

English Heritage spokesman Martin Cherry said they are all "architecturally timeless".

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