Building 132 (Ration Store)
BUILDING 132 (RATION STORE)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392881
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Building 132 (Ration Store)
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING 132 (RATION STORE)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392881
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Building 132 (Ration Store)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING 132 (RATION STORE)
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 132 (RATION STORE)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittlesford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45711 46322
Details
WHITTLESFORD
1767/0/10027 NORTH CAMP, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (FORME 01-DEC-05 R RAF DUXFORD) Building 132 (Ration Store)
GV II Ration store. 1933. By the Air Ministry's Directorate of Works and Buildings. Drawing No. 503/29. Stretcher bond cavity wall brickwork, slate roof.
PLAN: A small single-storey L-plan gabled building, immediately behind the Institute (Building No 6, qv), and set to the main N/S axis through the parade ground to the heating plant at the far rear. Two rooms, office to left and store to right, behind verandah incorporated under roof slope.
EXTERIOR: Windows are timber, with concrete sub-sills and slightly cambered brick voussoir heads. The front has two 4-pane sash to the gable, left, then a small high casement and wide pair of plank doors, set back to a deep verandah, the front eaves carried on slender timber posts set to concrete base pads. The end returns are plain, and the back has two high lights, and two 4-pane to the gable end, all this in one plane. All windows are barred. There is a slight rendered plinth, and the slate roof is brought to tight eaves and verge finishes.
INTERIOR: Not inspected, but appears to have office to the gabled unit, with store to the right.
HISTORY: A very modest structure with little architectural pretension, but a standard unit essential to the operation of the base which was erected in conjunction with the Institute (Building No 6, qv). Duxford represents the finest and best-preserved example of a fighter base representative of the period up to 1945 in Britain, with an exceptionally 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. For more details of the history of the site see under entry for the Officers' Mess (Building 45).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 500325
- 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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