Building 70 (Petrol Tanker Sheds)
BUILDING 70 (PETROL TANKER SHEDS)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391619
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Building 70 (Petrol Tanker Sheds)
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING 70 (PETROL TANKER SHEDS)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391619
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Building 70 (Petrol Tanker Sheds)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING 70 (PETROL TANKER SHEDS)
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 70 (PETROL TANKER SHEDS)
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 46101 46279
Details
DUXFORD
1767/0/10037 SOUTH CAMP, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (FORME 01-DEC-05 R RAF DUXFORD) Building 70 (Petrol Tanker Sheds)
GV II Group of 6 tanker garages. 1936, extended by two bays to south in 1938. By the Air Ministry's Directorate of Works and Buildings. Drawing No 2773/34. Brickwork in Flemish bond, concrete roof with asphalt finish.
PLAN: A straight row of conjoined garages opening to the W.
EXTERIOR: A plain rectangular block with six full-height openings fitted with up-and-over roller doors separated by brick piers. A square drip-course in concrete with concrete upstand continuous across the full width of the building, and round all sides; above this a 9-course brick parapet with plain flush concrete coping. In front of the piers between garage doors are free-standing protective concrete blocks, approx 1m wide, with rounded ends.
INTERIOR: Steel trusses, with 9-inch fire walls separating each bay.
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. See descriptions of the aircraft hangars for further historical details.
Petrol tanker sheds were built on RAF stations following the decision in 1934/5 to replace fixed refuelling points with a mobile system of refuelling aircraft. This block is prominently located at the far E end of the main technical buildings, facing along the main thoroughfare between these and the hangars.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 496011
- 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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