Building 48 (Works Services Building)
BUILDING 48 (WORKS SERVICES BUILDING)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391605
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Building 48 (Works Services Building)
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING 48 (WORKS SERVICES BUILDING)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391605
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Building 48 (Works Services Building)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING 48 (WORKS SERVICES BUILDING)
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:
- BUILDING 48 (WORKS SERVICES BUILDING)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Duxford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45746 46101
Details
DUXFORD
1767/0/10042 SOUTH CAMP, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (FORME 01-DEC-05 R RAF DUXFORD) Building 48 (Works Services Building)
GV II - see Bicester
Works maintenance yard and buildings. 1935, by the Air Ministry's Directorate of Works and Buildings. Drawing No 1134/27. Yellow brick in Flemish bond with slate roof and brick stacks.
PLAN: rectangular plan single-storey structure containing separate offices for the clerk of works and station engineer, a fitter's shop and a large store. An attached yard bounded by brick walls for the storage of building materials.
EXTERIOR: concrete lintels over all openings. South elevation has small 6-pane stell casement to right of half-glazed door with overlight; further to left, a similar set of double doors is flanked by multi-paned transomed steel casements. The roof to either side is hipped for the returns to the rear wings, and on the left is a lean-to with similar door and flanking small casements. Similar fenestration to rear, the right retrun having double doors to workshop with skylights.
INTERIOR: retains original doors and joinery.
HISTORY: Duxford is the finest and best-preserved example of a fighter base representative of the period up to 1945 in Britain, with a uniquely complete group of First World War technical buildings in addition to technical and domestic buildings typical of both inter-war Expansion Periods of the RAF. It also has important associations with the Battle of Britain and the American fighter support for the Eighth Air Force. Externally unaltered, this building served in a key support function to the base, and has been included because of its integral relationship to this uniquely well-preserved and historically important site. See descriptions of the aircraft hangars for further historical details.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 495997
- 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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