RAF Rougham: Radar Building
RAF ROUGHAM: RADAR BUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391934
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-2007
- List Entry Name:
- RAF Rougham: Radar Building
- Statutory Address:
- RAF ROUGHAM: RADAR BUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391934
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-2007
- List Entry Name:
- RAF Rougham: Radar Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAF ROUGHAM: RADAR 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:
- RAF ROUGHAM: RADAR BUILDING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rushbrooke with Rougham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 89198 64133
Details
RUSHBROOKE WITH ROUGHAM
490/0/10011 RAF Rougham: radar building 19-APR-07
GV II A seven-bay radar building, built 1942/43, constructed of rendered brick and has projecting steel columns on all elevations. There are crittall casement windows throughout and the gable roof as a contemporary corrugated covering, possibly asbestos. The facade has central double doors, which have been replaced and a projecting switch gear store, with louvred doors, attached at the South-East corner. On the North elevation, one doorway has been blocked and there has been some necessary rebuilding at the North-West corner of the structure, undertaken during the restoration.
INTERIOR. The building has an unaltered plan-form. The main room lies to the East and presumably contained the radar equipment. There are two smaller central rooms, one having a contemporary safe with armoured door and concrete shelving above, and some remnants of graffiti on the wall. The other is the former radio room containing some radio equipment believed to be from other airbases. The room to the West provides clear visibility of the flying field. All of the door and window openings and frames are original, and most of the interior doors are original, although a small number have been sourced from other airfield structures of the same date. The roof structure is a complete metal 'A' frame. HISTORY RAF Rougham was a 'temporary' military airfield, constructed between 1941/1942 as an RAF night-fighter station, but was immediately in use by USAAF, initially housing the 47th bomb group, but afterwards the 322nd and 94th bomb groups. From 1943, B17 Flying Fortresses flew from Rougham and the airfield was modified to accommodate these massive aircraft. After the war, the 94th stayed on to carry out leaflet and food distribution throughout Europe, finally leaving Rougham in December 1945. The airfield closed in 1948, and the control tower was converted into a residence, but was restored as a museum in the early C21 and is a listed grade II building.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE The Radar building at RAF Rougham was constructed in 1942/43 and sympathetically restored in 2004. The building has the original roof structure, window and door openings and plan-form and interior features such as the safe and shelving. Although increased numbers of survivals of C20 military structures make greater selectivity necessary, the Radar building is remarkably intact and has visual and functional group value with the contemporary listed control tower.
Listing NGR TL8919764134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 502589
- 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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