Combined Officers Mess and Offices, Yatesbury Airfield
COMBINED OFFICERS MESS AND OFFICES, YATESBURY AIRFIELD, JUGGLERS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109947
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Combined Officers Mess and Offices, Yatesbury Airfield
- Statutory Address:
- COMBINED OFFICERS MESS AND OFFICES, YATESBURY AIRFIELD, JUGGLERS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109947
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Combined Officers Mess and Offices, Yatesbury Airfield
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMBINED OFFICERS MESS AND OFFICES, YATESBURY AIRFIELD, JUGGLERS LANE
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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:
- COMBINED OFFICERS MESS AND OFFICES, YATESBURY AIRFIELD, JUGGLERS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cherhill
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 05132 71190
Details
SU07SE COMPTON BASSETT JUGGLERS LANE
Yatesbury
1385/10/10010 Combined Officers' mess
and offices, Yatesbury
Airfield
GV II
Combined Officers' Mess and Offices. 1936. Architect Cecil Jones. Rendered brick with steel-framed windows and flat roofs. Square plan, with offices for the chief flying instructor, time-keeper, and pilots' changing-rooms all located on the south-east aerodrome elevation, with a billiards room and a mess/ante-room for use of the instructors and officer pupils face a garden front on the southwest side. The garden front is marked by a taller projecting block to centre, with small-paned windows set in four recessed semi-circular arches with fanlights and linking impost courses. Plat band is linked to flanking ranges with projecting end blocks, with flat arches over similar windows and plain rendered surround to right-hand doorway. Airfield elevation (to south east) has plat band linking four projecting canted bay windows, arranged in pairs and flanking centres window. Flat arches over windows to north- east and north-west elevations, the latter with rendered surround to two door openings. Interior has lost much original detail, but has retained half-glazed doors set in moulded wood architraves in hallway (opening out to garden front).
HISTORY: This was the architectural highlight of the civilian flying training school opened1936 and operated by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, under contract to the Air Ministry. During the 1930s expansion of the RAF, preliminary training was contracted out to private firms. The complex was praised by Flight magazine (in 1936) as 'a model school whose pattern few will equal an none better', and its crisp modern style makes it the most distinguished example associated with a purpose-built Elementary and Reserve Flight Training Station.
Listing NGR: SU0513871180
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469444
- 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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