G 29 Building at the Royal Aircraft Establishment
G 29 BUILDING AT THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT, LANCASTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1339694
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1979
- List Entry Name:
- G 29 Building at the Royal Aircraft Establishment
- Statutory Address:
- G 29 BUILDING AT THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT, LANCASTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1339694
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1979
- List Entry Name:
- G 29 Building at the Royal Aircraft Establishment
- Statutory Address 1:
- G 29 BUILDING AT THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT, LANCASTER ROAD
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:
- G 29 BUILDING AT THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT, LANCASTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Rushmoor (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 86910 54365
Details
991/2/45 LANCASTER ROAD 21-FEB-03 FARNBOROUGH G 29 BUILDING AT THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT ES TABLISHMENT
GV II
Also Known As: THE BLACK SHEDS, LANCASTER ROAD, FARNBOROUGH Aircraft hangar. 1912, by the War Office's Directorate of Fortifications and Works. Corrugated iron cladding to timber frame. Rectangular plan, comprising two side-opening sheds with central entries. The elevation facing the flying field has two gabled entrance bays, one remaining to the rear.
INTERIOR: timber lattice trusses with iron tension rods to the tie beams in the manner of mid C19 trussed beams.
HISTORY: This is the sole survivor of the extensive groups of hangars that were built before the First World War at Farnborough, the only other aircraft hangars of this period being at Larkhill (Wiltshire: where No 2 Squadron was established before it moved to Netheravon), Eastchurch (Kent: for the RFC's Naval Wing) and the remarkable group at Montrose in Scotland. Typically for this early period of design for aircraft sheds, they are designed as side-opening sheds and are not provided with the lean-to annexes for accommodating workshops and spare parts etc that later became a standard element of hangar design.
Listing NGR: SU8762456569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 137871
- 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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