Guy Gibson Hall (Former Station Headquarters)
GUY GIBSON HALL (FORMER STATION HEADQUARTERS), MANBY BUSINESS PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392630
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Guy Gibson Hall (Former Station Headquarters)
- Statutory Address:
- GUY GIBSON HALL (FORMER STATION HEADQUARTERS), MANBY BUSINESS PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392630
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Guy Gibson Hall (Former Station Headquarters)
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUY GIBSON HALL (FORMER STATION HEADQUARTERS), 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.
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:
- GUY GIBSON HALL (FORMER STATION HEADQUARTERS), 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:
- TF 39583 87032
Reasons for Designation
Military Aviation site
Details
1783/0/10006
MANBY,
MANBY BUSINESS PARK,
Guy Gibson Hall (former Station Headquarters)
GV II
Station headquarters. 1936-7. A Bulloch, architectural advisor to the Air Ministry's Directorate or Works and Buildings (drawing no. 190/36). Flemish bond brick, interlocking tile roof covering to parapetted hipped roofs, concrete structure with asphaltic finish to flat section.
PLAN: A main range in 2 storeys, with central entrance through a small lobby to large circulating hall, from which a central passageway is taken through on the main axis to a doorway at the rear. This range is flanked at either side by single-storey pavilions with hipped roofs, and across the rear flat-roofed link building a similar hipped unit, forming an asymmetrical 'H' in plan. The main open-well staircase is in the link building.
EXTERIOR: Small-paned timber sashes to all windows, with brick voussoir heads and concrete sills. Channelled rustication to door surrounds. The central 2-storey range is in 5 bays, with 15-pane sashes. A central pair of panelled doors to radial fanlight is set in responds with a moulded arch keystone, and is all original. To each side the pavilions, in the same plane as the 2-storey range, each have 4 bays of 15-pane sashes to front and rear; right end (N) has semi-circular with rusticated surround to panelled door with overlight. Tall 3-storey link block presents a 3-bay elevation to the S with 12-pane sashes flanking central bay with 8-pane sashes above panelled double doors with overlight set in rusticated semi-circular arched surround. The transverse rear range, like the pavilions with a high parapet, has returns to 2 bays each end and has a 7-bay W elevation with 15-pane sashes throughout. Original hopper-heads and downpipes remain to all elevations.
INTERIOR: plain, retains dog-leg stair and some original joinery.
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:
- 500373
- 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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