Motor Transport Sheds (Building 48) , Hooton Park Aerodrome
MOTOR TRANSPORT SHEDS (BUILDING 48), HOOTON PARK AERODROME, AIRFIELD WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390489
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Motor Transport Sheds (Building 48) , Hooton Park Aerodrome
- Statutory Address:
- MOTOR TRANSPORT SHEDS (BUILDING 48), HOOTON PARK AERODROME, AIRFIELD WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390489
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Motor Transport Sheds (Building 48) , Hooton Park Aerodrome
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOTOR TRANSPORT SHEDS (BUILDING 48), HOOTON PARK AERODROME, AIRFIELD 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:
- MOTOR TRANSPORT SHEDS (BUILDING 48), HOOTON PARK AERODROME, AIRFIELD WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 37252 78738, SJ 37276 78752
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31/10/2016 and on 09/11/2016
1755/0/10028
AIRFIELD WAY,
Motor Transport Sheds (Building 48), Hooton Park Aerodrome
(Formerly listed as: SOUTH ROAD, Motor Transport Sheds, Hooton Park Aerodrome)
19.02.03
GV
II
Motor transport sheds. 1917, for the Royal Flying Corps. Rendered brick with sheet metal roofs, boarded under. Each range of 13 bays long and rectangular plan with workshops in rear outshut. Each bay divided by a brick pier, and timber internal trusses braced to side walls by raking side struts.
These motor transport stores and garages form part of one of the most complete hangar groupings of the First World War period, of significance in both a British and European context. It is included for this reason, there being also buildings of this type at Duxford and Old Sarum.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490368
- 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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