Kenton Bunker at Former RAF Blakelaw
KENTON BUNKER AT FORMER RAF BLAKELAW, KENTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390494
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Kenton Bunker at Former RAF Blakelaw
- Statutory Address:
- KENTON BUNKER AT FORMER RAF BLAKELAW, KENTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390494
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Kenton Bunker at Former RAF Blakelaw
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENTON BUNKER AT FORMER RAF BLAKELAW, KENTON LANE
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:
- KENTON BUNKER AT FORMER RAF BLAKELAW, KENTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21663 67383
Details
1833/0/10225 KENTON LANE 25-JUN-03 (South,off) Kenton Bunker at former RAF Blakelaw
II Underground Operations Room or Bunker. Built 1939 as the Head Quarters of No. 13 Group for the North. Reinforced concrete and brick.
Above ground a small entrance building with a flat concrete roof supported on square brick columns. Entrance doors to right flanked by single narrow casement windows with overhanging canopy above. To left two further bays, the first has a central 2-light casement window flanked by single narrow casements. Beyond the left bay has a single narrow casement window. The bunker itself is underground and covered grass.
INTERIOR is entered down a long flight of concrete steps. The west entrance door has rubber gas seals. Almost all the original fittings survive in the Plant Room including its Porton anti-gas filters, the electrical pipes and fuse boxes, the main power input console, the original air pressure gauges and the metal ventilation ducting. The acid filled glass batteries survive in the Auxiliary Battery Room. The Operations Room itself even retains its original light fittings.
This bunker was the HQ for No. 13 Group which formed part of RAF Blakelaw. It was from here that the northern response to the Battle of Britain was co-ordinated and also the general air defence for the remainder of the Second World War.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490373
- 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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