3 Aircraft Hangars To Former Sundridge Aerodrome At Coombe Bank Farm

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This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

TQ 4855 SUNDRIDGE CHEVENING ROAD

32/2002 3 Aircraft Hangars to former Sundridge Aerodrome at Coombe Bank Farm

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Aircraft hangars, in use for sheep raising at time of survey. c.1910. Built for manufacturing aeroplanes by Polish Prince de Bolotoff who built aeroplanes there before the 1914-18 war. Timber framed, the roofs and walls covered in corrugated iron sheeting, 3 gabled and open fronted hangars. Roofs are of kingpost type construction with 5 posts to each gable held by iron clamps.

Each hangar is of 6 bays with square upright posts on padstones. Wall frame has diagonal tension braces to rear and continuous window. Adjoining to the south is a concrete structure of 2 bays wide and 9 bays long, not of special interest, probably added c.1927 when the complex became a garage for West Kent Motor Services. During the Second World War the hangars were used as an RAF recovery unit for crashed aircraft. Included because pre 1914-18 aircraft hangars are very rare, probably only about 15 surviving nationwide.

(See Sevenoaks Chronicle article of 1 May 1982).

Listing NGR: TQ4849655819

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0987 IOE Records taken by A Beresford Hills; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr A. Beresford Hills. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project