Building 46 (Squash Court)
BUILDING 46 (SQUASH COURT), A505
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067840
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Building 46 (Squash Court)
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING 46 (SQUASH COURT), A505
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067840
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Building 46 (Squash Court)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING 46 (SQUASH COURT), A505
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING 46 (SQUASH COURT), 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 45885 46358
Details
WHITTLESFORD
1767/0/10023 NORTH CAMP, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (FORME
10-OCT-02 R RAF DUXFORD)
Building 46 (Squash Court)
GV II
Squash racquets court. 1935. By the Air Ministry Directorate of Works and Buildings. Drawing No 1842/35. Flemish bond brickwork with stiffening piers, corrugated asbestos-cement roof on steel trusses.
PLAN: A single court, entered through S gabled end, and with stairs to observation gallery, and small waiting room.
EXTERIOR: A tall gabled block, the central part of each gable raised to a shouldered parapet with coping, above a louvred vertical opening to a flush concrete lintel. At the S end a central part-glazed entrance door, and on each return, at a low level, a small 2-light timber casement with glazing-bars; these and the doorway to flush lintels. To each long side and two full-height buttresses. Each roof slope has a large are of patent glazing taken up to the ridge.
INTERIOR: Entrance lobby with stairs up to viewing area for court.
HISTORY: One or more squash courts were normal to RAF bases, closely related, as here, to the Officers' Mess (Building 45, qv). This court is characteristic of the careful approach to design typical of the 1930s Expansion Period of the RAF, and of the amenity provision for officers on military barracks dating from the mid C19. 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).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489826
- 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.
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