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Fire Booster Pump Pump House (133)
Fire pumps provided an emergency boost to the water pressure should it be required from any of
the fire hydrants located around the station. This was the original 1920s pump house providing a
fire-fighting water supply from underground storage tanks. In later years it provided a back-up
to the main fire booster house located close to the water reservoir. Both of these are now
demolished and since then, building 133 has been used as the main fire booster pump house for
the water company supply.
� NGR: SU 5607 0115 (133)
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RPO’s Mess (135) (135)
The exact date of this small single-storey building is unknown but it was built before 1931 on a
site close to the 1918 station sick quarters. Designed in a style similar to the type ‘E’ barrack
blocks.
Construction was of 9in red facing bricks with a slate covered pitched roof. It has a rectangular
plan-form with a large projecting bay having a pitched roof with hipped shaped rafters.
� NGR: SU 5607 0118 (135)
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Launderette Launderette (138)
(138)
The launderette is located between the rear of buildings 137 and 139. It is a small brick-built
building that was originally designed for clothing decontamination. It is constructed of 11in cavity
brick walls with a timber-framed roof, boarded and clad with corrugated asbestos sheeting. The
ridgeline has two large asbestos air ventilators. The east elevation has a flat-roofed annexe which
might have housed a boiler.
� NGR: SU 5605 0121 (138)
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50 Ambulance Ambulance Shed Shed 2752/34 2752/34 ( (Sub ( Sub Sub-Station Sub Station & & Ambulance Ambulance Bay Bay) Bay ) ( (141 ( 141 141a) 141
This is a small brick-built ambulance garage with a hipped-shaped roof, it is associated with the
SSQ and was built after 1935.
The building is in excellent condition and is complete with original doors. It is now connected to
the intake sub-station by an annexe (see below).
� NGR: SU 5607 0127 (141a)
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51 Intake Sub Sub-Station Sub
Station (141 (141b) (141
The inlet sub-station was the main electric power supply building, it was here where the electric
company outside supply of 11,000 volts entered the station to feed a number of transformers.
Here the line pressure was reduced to an Air Ministry / Admiralty supply of 400/230 volts which
left the building via switchgear apparatus.
Built of 9in. brick and a flat reinforced concrete roof, it is attached to the ambulance shed.
� NGR: SU 5607 0127 (141b)
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52 Station Offices Offices (Wardroom Wardroom Annexe Annexe Junior Rating’s Accommodation
Accommodation)
Accommodation
) (142)
(142)
The original function of this building is unknown, but it is thought to have been the station offices,
built in 1935 to replace the main offices within the Headquarters Coastal Area building, when
more office space was required by Coastal Area.
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