BUILDING 29K -29O INCLUSIVE (AIRMENS' BARRACKS)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391478
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-2005
List Entry Name:: BUILDING 29K -29O INCLUSIVE (AIRMENS' BARRACKS)
Statutory Address:: BUILDING 29K -29O INCLUSIVE (AIRMENS' BARRACKS)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391478
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-2005
List Entry Name:: BUILDING 29K -29O INCLUSIVE (AIRMENS' BARRACKS)
Statutory Address 1:: BUILDING 29K -29O INCLUSIVE (AIRMENS' BARRACKS)

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.

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BUILDING 29K -29O INCLUSIVE (AIRMENS' BARRACKS)

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Figheldean
National Grid Reference:: SU 15625 48899

Details

FIGHELDEAN

1382/0/10011 AIRFIELD CAMP (FORMER RAF NETHERAVON) 01-DEC-05 Building 29K -29O inclusive (Airmens' Barracks)

GV II Airmen's barracks blocks. Designed 1913, completed mid 1914. Architect DM Franklin, but drawings counter-signed by Col A M Stuart, Assistant Director of Fortifications and Works. Softwood framing with asbestos-cement panel facings and linings, joints covered with painted softwood battens, some masonry stiffening to gable-ends, all set to concrete levelling slabs with plinth offset: asbestos-cement slates set diagonally to roofs.

PLAN: The five buildings are set in parallel in single row, centred on the former Institute (qv) and a matching group of barracks (qv) on the far side of a parade ground. The five blocks were identical, each a long narrow gabled range with central lobby sited opposite rear ablutions block.

EXTERIOR: These buildings are built to the same philosophy of design as the Officers' Mess group (qv), with sash windows set to grid of vertical and horizontal battens, framing openings, and with sole plate, sill and head bands: the gables have central stiffening sections in masonry, plastered flush with the remainder of the wall. Fronts are in 12 bays, with 8-pane timber sashes, including one paired, with wide central mullion, two bays in from each end, and on off-centre pair of glazed doors, on 2 steps and under a 5-pane transom-light. The rear is similar, including paired lights and smaller paired lights adjacent to the service wing, which has a ledged, braced and battened door each side and various small sashes. Gable ends are plain, and some inserted doors in long rear elevations.

INTERIOR: Partly inspected only. Various sub-divisions for later use. The iron tension-bars are exposed below canted panelled ceilings on timber trusses.

HISTORY: Designed in 1913 and completed in mid 1914, this group comprises one half of two rows of five barracks blocks, each for 24 airmen, flanking the parade ground and the Institute (qv). Each barrack block was planned as two internal rooms for 12 men each, the entrance lobby being sited opposite the ablutions area. The Institute had a billiard room and bar flanking a central hall, with bathrooms and a shop to the rear.

Part of a uniquely important prototype air base of the pre-1914 period. For fuller history, see description of Officers mess. (gv)

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 495427
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.