The Charterhouse (Former Sergeants' Mess and Quarters)

THE CHARTERHOUSE (FORMER SERGEANTS' MESS AND QUARTERS), MANBY BUSINESS PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1392629
Date first listed:
11-Oct-2004
List Entry Name:
The Charterhouse (Former Sergeants' Mess and Quarters)
Statutory Address:
THE CHARTERHOUSE (FORMER SERGEANTS' MESS AND QUARTERS), MANBY BUSINESS PARK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1392629
Date first listed:
11-Oct-2004
List Entry Name:
The Charterhouse (Former Sergeants' Mess and Quarters)
Statutory Address 1:
THE CHARTERHOUSE (FORMER SERGEANTS' MESS AND QUARTERS), MANBY BUSINESS PARK

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE CHARTERHOUSE (FORMER SERGEANTS' MESS AND QUARTERS), MANBY BUSINESS PARK

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:
Manby
National Grid Reference:
TF3952987161

Reasons for Designation

Military Aviation building

Details

1783/0/10003

MANBY,
MANBY BUSINESS PARK,
The Charterhouse (former Sergeants' Mess and Quarters)

GV II

Sergeants' Mess and Quarters, now offices. 1936-7. A Bulloch, architectural advisor to the Air Ministry's Directorate or Works and Buildings (drawing no. 3690/35). Cavity brick construction, interlocking tile roof covering to parapetted hipped roofs, brick stacks.

PLAN: Overall U-shaped plan, with central E facing mess block with rear service ranges linked to matching accommodation blocks to N and S.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. All windows are wood sashes, set to flush boxes with brick voussoir heads and concrete sills.
South block: Symmetrical 7-window S front has 12-pane sashes, 8-pane to outer bays, and panelled door set in semi-circular arch of header bricks with blind tympanum; channelled rustication to door surround. 3-window returns, with central door to right (E).
Matching N block with main N elevation, at present (2003) boarded up.
Central block: Taller and projecting forward as an E-facing elevation is the parapetted central block, which has a similar 9-window range with central door. To rear (W) of this is a parapetted 4-window single-storey service range with a hipped roof, and a rendered extension of c1942.

INTERIOR: some original joinery including panelled doors; staircases with steel balustrades.

HISTORY: This is a distinctive design of 1935 by the Air Ministry architect, A Bulloch. Detailing is restrained throughout, but massing, spacing and proportions are carefully considered, in the neo-Georgian style favoured at this period, and influenced by the impact of the Royal Fine Arts Commission, especially though the architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens. Manby ranks with Hullavington in Wiltshire - another Scheme A station - as the most complete and architecturally unified of the post-1934 stations of the so-called Expansion Period of the RAF. For further details see description for Tedder Hall (qv).

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
500371
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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