BUILDING 147 (FIRST WORLD WAR BARRACKS), NORTH CAMP

BUILDING 147 (FIRST WORLD WAR BARRACKS), NORTH CAMP, A505

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067838
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-2002
List Entry Name:: BUILDING 147 (FIRST WORLD WAR BARRACKS), NORTH CAMP
Statutory Address:: BUILDING 147 (FIRST WORLD WAR BARRACKS), NORTH CAMP, A505

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067838
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-2002
List Entry Name:: BUILDING 147 (FIRST WORLD WAR BARRACKS), NORTH CAMP
Statutory Address 1:: BUILDING 147 (FIRST WORLD WAR BARRACKS), NORTH CAMP, A505

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BUILDING 147 (FIRST WORLD WAR BARRACKS), NORTH CAMP, A505

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Whittlesford
National Grid Reference:: TL 45847 46341

Details

WHITTLESFORD

1767/0/10021 NORTH CAMP,IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (RAF DU 10-OCT-02 XFORD) Building 147 (First World War Barracks)

GV II

Barracks block, in use as store. 1918, by Lieut. J.G.N. Clift of the War Office's Directorate of Fortifications and Works. Drawing No 481/18. Rendered brick, asbestos-cement slating on timber trusses.

PLAN: A long narrow block with raised central area and clerestorey, divided longitudinally in plan with entrances in short gable ends. In 8 bays each of 13ft (3.96m).

EXTERIOR: Windows are all standard steel casements, originally standard 12-pane casements, but in the lean-to ranges replaced by later casements with side-hung lights and small top vents, without glazing-bars. The gabled ends have a raised centre with lower sides, all in one plane, having a pair of tall plank doors flanked by 2-light small-pane casements. The long sides have a series of 8 horizontal small-pane casements set tight to the upper eaves, above the later windows in bays separated by shallow flat buttresses; on the right (E) side is a small further projection to the first bay, with a small 8-pane light.

INTERIOR: Some partitions remain.

HISTORY: This is a very rare surviving example of a common type of standard barracks hut of the First World War period, in this case built as single officers' quarters. Originally there were at least 4 identical huts, in parallel, just to the N of the Officers' Mess (qv, Building 45), and on plans of the station from 1918 to 1933 they are shown as Officers' Quarters, still in-situ, and linked in pairs. This remaining building lies immediately N of the current Officers' Mess, forming with it and the Squash Court (qv, Building 46) a significant group. This is the only surviving building from 1917 on the domestic site at the Training Depot Station at Duxford, the technical site on the S side of the A 505 being the most complete surviving group of buildings on an airfield of the First World War period. Duxford represents the finest and best-preserved example of a fighter base representative of the period up to 1945 in Britain, with an exceptionally complete group of First World War technical buildings in addition to technical and domestic buildings typical of both inter-war Expansion Periods of the RAF. It also has important associations with the Battle of Britain and the American fighter support for the Eighth Air Force. For more details of the history of the site see under entry for the Officers' Mess (Building 45).

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Legacy System number:: 489824
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.