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2.4 Guard and Fire Party House (7) 49 4 – 4 9 7 / 3 8 , N G R : T L 40 5 6 9 6 6 5 3 0 2.4.1 Introduction The guard and fire party house occupies a position along the main drive. It faces SW and is set back on the northern side to allow the SHQ to face the main drive. The building opened on 6 October 1940 (the station itself opened on 1 July 1940). It is a Scheme ‘M’ design, consisting of a single-storey brick and concrete structure with an internal planning based around a lozenge-shaped plan-form (the four corners are known as triangles which are architecturally interesting as they functional – either as external access points or as light wells). There is a large 28 ft by 60 ft (8534 by 18288) centrally located exercise yard which also functions as a light well. Rooms are therefore arranged around the exercise yard. 2.4.2 Room Arrangement As originally built the accommodation is split between civilian wardens, the fire party and personnel forming the station guard. The front elevation is symmetrical with a veranda, the roof of which is supported by four pairs of brick piers and at either end is a loggia. One of these originally had a telephone box but this has now been removed and repositioned. There is a central entrance veranda, which is divided between the guardroom, followed by an NCO's room, SAA store and then a civilian warden's barrack area on the right. The NW side contains the guardroom while beyond this is the general detention room, a corridor with access to the exercise yard and service detention room, and lavatories for the guard. As originally constructed it was not possible to get access from here to the remainder of the building. From the civilian warden's barrack room at the SE end of the veranda there is an L-shaped corridor that forms a perimeter of the exercise yard. From here there is access to the fire party barrack room located at the rear of the building, and a lavatory / bathroom. Other rooms include a paint and repair shop, and the prophylactic treatment room. Both of these are accessed from the eastern triangle. The central part of the SE side elevation is the fire tender house which extends beyond the main building. The last room is a calorifier chamber, which is behind the service detention room and is accessed from the NW triangle. 2.4.3 Internal Modifications The building underwent internal modification c.1975 whereby the open plan fire party barrack room was converted into four detention rooms, each having a small window. They were accessed from a new covered way erected within the exercise yard, and a new wide corridor which connected with the L-shaped one. The prophylactic room was also modified with a new entrance from the former L-shaped corridor and its original entrance from the eastern triangle was bricked up. A new partition was also built inside the modified room. The function of these two rooms is unknown. The former civilian warden's room became guard quarters and the doorway to the L-shaped corridor was bricked up. The paint and repair shop became the fire section quarters. 2.4.4 Construction External walls are 15 inch vented cavity brick with internal walls of 9 inch brick. Windows were originally two, three and ten pane steel casements, and metal grill windows within timber 14
surrounds in the detention rooms. The main entrance had five-panel stout timber doors and the fire tender house had a steel roller shutter type door. The roof is 5 inches of reinforced concrete slab of protected roof design, the perimeter of which overhangs by 12 inches (0305). 2.4.5 Immigration Centre Building 7 functioned as a secure unit and departure block. 2.4.6 Status, March 2011 Most windows have been replaced by UPVC types which are out of keeping with its architectural design. Footprint dimensions: 105.93 ft by 75.14 ft (32.29 m by 22.90 m). Plate 13: Guard and fire party house (7) March 2011 Plate 14: Guard and fire party house (7) c.1997 15
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Page 12 and 13: 1.2 Site Overview In September 2004
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2.27 Training Theatre (63) NAO/55/7
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2.28 Main Stores (66) 7034/37, NGR:
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2.29 Lubricant & Inflammable Store
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2.30 Armoury (70) 73 0 4 / 3 7 & M
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Plate 74: Armoury offices (70) Marc
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2.33 Main Workshops (76) 69 5 8 / 3
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2.34 T2 Hangars (79 & 80) N G R : (
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2.35 Type ‘J’ Aircraft Sheds (8
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2.36 Night Flying Equipment Store (
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2.39 Airfield Lighting ‘B’ Cont
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2.41 Squadron Dispersal Building /
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2.42 New Gymnasium (514) & Squash R
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2.43 Commutated Aerial Direction Fi
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2.44 Small Arms Ammunition Store (5
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2.46 Exhaust Silencer and Ventilati
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2.48 Sleeve Streamer Mast (516) N G
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Plate 113: Airfield code letters 19
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2.51 BEFAB ‘Safeland’ Emergency
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3.2 Practice Bomb Store and Gas Cha
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3.4 Bomb Stores Type ‘D’ (184-1
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3.6 Components Storehouse (198 & 19
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4.2 FW3/22 Pillbox 4.2.1 Introducti
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4.4 Watch Towers / Pillboxes 4.4.1
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4.5 Air-Raid Shelters 4.5.1 Introdu
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Huts such as these were also used f
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6.2.2 Outer Marker 5216E/54 N G R :
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6.3.3 Stand by Set House N G R : TL
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Appendix 1 - S U M M AR Y O F BUI L
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Appendix I (contd) - Summary Of Bui
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Building 2 contd. Appendix 2 (contd
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Station Sick Quarters 7503/37 Groun
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Building 13 contd Station Headquart
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Building 23 contd Sergeants’ Mess
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Compressor House 318/37 Building 47
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Building 70 contd Parachute Store 6
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Appendix 3 - BUILDING S DEM O L I S
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Plate 154: RC Church (160) 1999 Pla
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Appendix 4 - SO U R C E S, DRAW I N
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Appendix 5 - S O U R C E S, NAT IO
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