BUILDING 83 (INSTITUTE BUILDING)

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391952
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-2005
List Entry Name:: BUILDING 83 (INSTITUTE BUILDING)
Statutory Address:: BUILDING 83 (INSTITUTE BUILDING)

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391952
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-2005
List Entry Name:: BUILDING 83 (INSTITUTE BUILDING)
Statutory Address 1:: BUILDING 83 (INSTITUTE BUILDING)

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BUILDING 83 (INSTITUTE BUILDING)

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 15651 48946

Details

FIGHELDEAN

1382/0/10024 AIRFIELD CAMP (FORMER RAF NETHERAVON) 01-DEC-05 Building 83 (Institute Building)

GV II Airmen's Institute. 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 Institute had a billiard room and bar flanking a central hall, with bathrooms and a shop to the rear.

EXTERIOR: Built to the same philosophy of design as the Officers' Mess group (qv), originally with sash windows (replaced in later C20) 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. Outer cross wings each have gable facing with 2 windows to front, flanking a recessed 4-window central range with flat hoods over outer doorways (one to right blocked). Clock set in cupola on roof. Sides and rear have 12-pane sashes, and transom lights over ledged, braced and battened doors, including loading doors to right-side elevation. To left is 1914 extension with horned 12-pane sashes, and to rear is a two-bay extension of the Second World War period.

INTERIOR: Some original doors and joinery.

HISTORY: This Institute comprises an integral part of the domestic site at Netheravon, a uniquely well-preserved and historically important prototype air base of the pre-1914 period. It stands at the head of a group of airmen's barracks, and despite some loss of original fenestration survives as a key element in this major grouping, set around a parade ground.

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

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 501266
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.