BUILDING 24 (AIRCRAFT REPAIR WORKSHOPS)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391609
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-2005
List Entry Name:: BUILDING 24 (AIRCRAFT REPAIR WORKSHOPS)
Statutory Address:: BUILDING 24 (AIRCRAFT REPAIR WORKSHOPS)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391609
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-2005
List Entry Name:: BUILDING 24 (AIRCRAFT REPAIR WORKSHOPS)
Statutory Address 1:: BUILDING 24 (AIRCRAFT REPAIR WORKSHOPS)

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 24 (AIRCRAFT REPAIR WORKSHOPS)

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stanton St. Quintin
National Grid Reference:: ST 91055 81087

Details

STANTON ST QUINTIN

1384/0/10020 HULLAVINGTON BARRACKS 01-DEC-05 Building 24 (Aircraft Repair Workshops)

GV II Aircraft workshops. 1935 - 6. A Bulloch, architectural advisor to the Air Ministry's Directorate of Works and Buildings. Drawing No 2048/34. Bath stone ashlar on brick or blockwork, profiled tile roofing, tall ashlar stack.

PLAN: Two long hipped service sheds in parallel (for airframes and engines), separated by a lower mainly top-lit flat-roofed unit containing offices, stores, blacksmith's shop, acetylene welders' shop and machine shop.

EXTERIOR: Steel casement windows with horizontal bars, grouped under projecting lintel-bands. The NW front, towards the hangars (qqv), has full height sliding/folding doors to each shed, set forward one bay from the centre section. This has a high flush-coped parapet concealing roof lights, above a central door with overlight, flanked by a single and 2-light casement each side, and all to a lintel band. The returns to SW and NE each have 7 large 3-light casements, the end lights separated from the centre group by downpipes to hopper-heads. The SE front is similar to the NW front, but the central wider door does not have an overlight and the workshop bays project further with 2-light casements on the inner returns.

INTERIOR: Original panelled and sliding doors. The main repair sheds have steel roof trusses and plain concrete floor, one with inspection pit.

HISTORY: This aircraft repair building is one of a group of technical buildings at this nationally important site that are both substantially complete - with original windows and other fitments - and which display the successful fusion of functional and aesthetic requirements that distinguished the early phase of the post-1934 expansion of the RAF. Buildings 20, 22, 23, 24 and 25 all face onto the avenue behind the hangar line, and that bisects the main SE-NW axis of the site.

Hullavington, which opened on June 6th 1937 as a Flying Training Station, is in every respect the key station most strongly representative of the improved architectural quality characteristic of the air bases developed under the post-1934 expansion of the RAF. Its position in the west of England with other training and maintenance bases also prompted its selection in 1938 as one of series of Aircraft Storage Units for the storage of vital reserves destined for the operational front-line. For further details on the site, see Buildings 59, 60 and 61 (The Officers' Mess).

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 496001
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.