The Restaurant, Members' Hill, Brooklands Museum
The Restaurant, Members' Hill, Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Road, Weybridge, KT13 0QN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272444
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-2002
- List Entry Name:
- The Restaurant, Members' Hill, Brooklands Museum
- Statutory Address:
- The Restaurant, Members' Hill, Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Road, Weybridge, KT13 0QN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272444
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-2002
- List Entry Name:
- The Restaurant, Members' Hill, Brooklands Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Restaurant, Members' Hill, Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Road, Weybridge, KT13 0QN
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:
- The Restaurant, Members' Hill, Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Road, Weybridge, KT13 0QN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Elmbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 07192 62933, TQ 07206 62940
Details
374/0/10091
WEYBRIDGE
BROOKLANDS ROAD
The Restaurant, Members' Hill, Brooklands Museum
01-NOV-02
GV
II
Restaurant. 1907. Red brick with gabled corrugated asbestos roof. Central double doors, with narrower double doors to left. Ten four-light timber casements beneath eaves. Similar fenestration to rear. A courtyard area to the rear is bounded by a brick and tile range that includes flanking and angled wings, with segmental arched openings.
INTERIOR: plain, with curved bracing to exposed trusses. Cast-iron range in kitchen.
HISTORY: Although a plain and functional building, the restaurant has great importance in relationship to a site of international significance in the development of motor sport and aviation in its pioneering days. It surmounts the hill (known as Members' Hill) that provided views of the world-famous motor racing track at Brooklands, and was in use by the opening of the track on June 17th 1907. The site was a favourite location for newsreel cameramen and many of the classic races were filmed from close to this spot, and in the Second World War the restaurant functioned as a billet for the anti-aircraft gunners that protected the Vickers aircraft factory below. During this period the restaurant also staged musicals and dances for local troops. It was used in the post-war period as a store.
The Members' Hill, a natural rise through which a cutting was made for the Members' Banking, was divided into four areas by railings. The Members' Enclosure at the western end contained the Members' Stand and the luncheon room, the neighbouring Reserved Lawn had the Tattersalls Stand and luncheon room, the Five Shilling Enclosure contained two stands, and the Public Enclosure on the eastern side of the hill was merely grassed over. In 1909 a narrow concrete roadway, the Test Hill, was added on the western side of the Members' Hill. A total of 352ft in length and with an average gradient of 1 in 5, the Test Hill was intended as a standard by which automobile engineers could measure engine and gearbox capabilities and braking. The western end of the Members' Hill which contains the Test Hill, a series of footpaths and steps, the foundations for the Members' Stand, the cloakrooms, kitchens and luncheon room behind the Reserved Lawn and several original lengths of railings are all included in the scheduling.
For more historical details, see entry for The Clubhouse.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489857
- 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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