Main Hangar (Calshot Former Rnas Station Immediately South of Castle)
MAIN HANGAR (CALSHOT FORMER RNAS STATION IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF CASTLE)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1095046
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Main Hangar (Calshot Former Rnas Station Immediately South of Castle)
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN HANGAR (CALSHOT FORMER RNAS STATION IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF CASTLE)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1095046
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Main Hangar (Calshot Former Rnas Station Immediately South of Castle)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN HANGAR (CALSHOT FORMER RNAS STATION IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF CASTLE)
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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:
- MAIN HANGAR (CALSHOT FORMER RNAS STATION IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF CASTLE)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- New Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fawley
- National Park:
- New Forest
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 48877 02333
Details
SU 40SE
13/22
FAWLEY
CALSHOT
Main Hangar (Calshot former RNAS Station
immediately south of Castle)
GV II
The grade shall be amended to II*
The entry shall be amended to read:-
SU 40 SE
1860-/13/22
08/04/88
FAWLEY
CALSHOT
Main Hangar (Calshot former RNAS
Station immediately south of Castle)
GV II*
Former flying boat hangar. 1918. Steel-framed with corrugated asbestos or metal cladding and roof.
Rectangular plan, covering an area of approx 5,704 square metres. Contemporary steel buttresses. West
elevation has continuous glazing below eaves, and 3 sets of sliding double doors. East elevation has
continuous glazing and single-storey outshut, also glazed. North and South elevations each have 8 lights.
Steel lattice girders to interior.
Historical note: The largest hangar built in Britain for use by fixed-wing aircraft during World War 1,
comprising 3 of the "F" type hangars which were introduced in 1917. Forms part of the most
outstanding group of early aircraft structures of this type in the British isles, ranging in size from the
1914 Belfast truss Canoe Hangar (qv) of 720 square metres in area, to the type "G" hangar (qv) of 1917
(972 square metres) and this example. Consequently, they manifest as a group the great advances made
in aircraft technology in the 1914-18 period. The base is also associated with the development of RJ
Mitchell's Merlin engine (used in the Spitfire), having been used for RAF speed trials in the inter-war
period and to accommodate British and Italian teams for the Schneider Trophy contest in 1929 and the
Supermarine and Gloster racers in 1931.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 143503
- 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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