British Aerospace Staff Mess
BRITISH AEROSPACE STAFF MESS, COMET WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262931
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- British Aerospace Staff Mess
- Statutory Address:
- BRITISH AEROSPACE STAFF MESS, COMET WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262931
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- British Aerospace Staff Mess
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRITISH AEROSPACE STAFF MESS, COMET WAY
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:
- BRITISH AEROSPACE STAFF MESS, COMET WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 21684 08902
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
TL 20 NW HATFIELD COMET WAY
8/10003 British Aerospace Staff Mess
GV II
Staff mess to offices. 1934 by Geoffrey Monro for the de Havilland Aviation Company. White painted reinforce concrete; flat roof concealed behind parapet. Plan: Managers' mess to NE with rounded corners and entrance and stairhall projecting on NE end; larger and wider staff mess to SW with projecting entrance block at SW end. International Modern Style. Exterior 2 storeys. Managers' mess at NE end has rounded corners with curved windows and horizontal bands of windows with green glazed tile piers and metal frames. Projecting on NE end 2-storey entrance and stairhall block with broad metal frame window on ground and first floors, the ground floor with integral doorway on left with cantilevered canopy. Behind to the SW a wider and taller block, the staff mess, with similar windows on the ground floor but 5 tall first floor windows on either side. Segmental raised parapets at either end of staff mess, at SW end projecting entrance block of 2 storeys with horizontal window band on first floor and doorway on ground floor with cantilevered canopy and flanking integral windows. Interior: Open-well staircase in managers' mess with unpierced balustrade and moulded wooden handrail, raised and ramped up at corners. Note: These were the messes to the offices of the de Havilland Aviation Company, where many famous aeroplanes were designed including the Tiger Moth, Dragonfly, Mosquito, Vampire and Comet.
Listing NGR: TL2168408902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433774
- 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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