Gibraltar Farm Barn
GIBRALTAR FARM BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390750
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Gibraltar Farm Barn
- Statutory Address:
- GIBRALTAR FARM BARN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390750
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Gibraltar Farm Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- GIBRALTAR FARM BARN
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:
- GIBRALTAR FARM BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tempsford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 19241 52568
Details
1779/0/10001
20-NOV-03
TEMPSFORD
Gibraltar Farm Barn
II
Also Known As: GIBRALTAR FARM BARN
Barn, later adapted to store flight equipment for Special Operations Executive agents,and now a memorial. Early-C19 with mid-C20 modifications.. Concrete plinth, weather-boarded and brick-lined walls under a pitched old tile roof. 5- bay barn with central threshing entrance, that to west blocked and with Crittall windows that are also in the gable ends.
INTERIOR: Concrete racks with brick partitions around perimeter formerly stored the flight equipment. To west wall, a memorial: 'Tempsford Airfield Gibraltar Farm I Erected to commemorate the brave deeds of the men and women of every nationality who flew from this wartime airfield to the forces of the resistance in France, Norway, Holland, and other countries during the years 1942 to 1945 I The equipment for their dangerous missions was issued to them from this barn'. Roof structure comprises 4 trusses of tie beams with slightly curved braces to walls and raking struts clasped to single rows of purlins with collars. Rafters joined by ridge piece.
SOURCES: Roger A. Freeman, 'Bases of Bomber Command Then and Now' (After the Battle, 2001).
Michael J. Bowyer, 'The Airfields' (Patrick Stephens Ltd. Cambridge, 1983).
Listed for its historic interest and as a memorial to the Special Operations Executive agents who were kitted out from this barn before flying from the adjacent runway to missions in occupied Europe
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 16 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491320
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bowyer, M J, The Airfields, (1983)
Freeman, R A, Bases of Bomber Command Then and Now (After the Battle, 2001), ()
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1826
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/199222
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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