TWO FORMER HANGARS ON NORTH SIDE OF FORMER AIRFIELD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1283146
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: TWO FORMER HANGARS ON NORTH SIDE OF FORMER AIRFIELD
Statutory Address:: TWO FORMER HANGARS ON NORTH SIDE OF FORMER AIRFIELD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1283146
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jun-1998
List Entry Name:: TWO FORMER HANGARS ON NORTH SIDE OF FORMER AIRFIELD
Statutory Address 1:: TWO FORMER HANGARS ON NORTH SIDE OF FORMER AIRFIELD

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TWO FORMER HANGARS ON NORTH SIDE OF FORMER AIRFIELD

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cherhill
National Grid Reference:: SU 05199 71289

Details

COMPTON BASSETT YATESBURY SU 07 SE

1385/10/287 Two former hangars on north side of former airfield

25.11.1987

GV II*

Two aircraft hangars. 1916. Timber-framed with corrugated iron cladding and tarred roofing felt to curved and boarded roofs. Each of rectangular plan, with full-width doors to gable ends and roofs of 80 feet span, with lean-tos to north sides comprising office, store, dressing room and heating chamber. Small paned iron windows on south side, eight to western hangar, seven to eastern hangar. Iron door gantries and corrugated iron doors date from refurbishment of 1936. INTERIORS: retain original roof structures. The larger span of 80 feet was achieved with laminated timber trusses incorporating a polygonal upper chord and a main tie-beam that relied structurally on an assembly of vertical iron tie rods (tension) and timber diagonal compression struts. The upper chord is made from eight lengths of timber giving the truss a roughly curved shape. Each length is made from a laminate of three, 8-inch by 2-inch pieces of timber bolted together and joined by "Y"-shaped steel plates. One arm of the "Y" connected with the diagonal struts. Lateral stiffness and resistance to movement is achieved by longitudinal beams. Laminated wall posts spaced at ten feet centres support each truss, are arranged in 17 bays. HISTORY: The timber-framed and clad doors in six leaves originally opened full width into cross-braced timber gantries located on either side of the end elevations. Wall cladding could either be in the form of felted timber, corrugated iron or cement-rendered "Hy-Rib" expanded metal sheeting.

Yatesbury opened in November 1916 as a Training Depot Station with two separate aerodromes, each to house two Royal Flying Corps reserve squadrons for the training of pilots. A unique survival of a First World War RFC airfield with servicing and accommodation hangars.

Listing NGR: SU0519971289

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Legacy System number:: 316299
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.