Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Orford ... - English Heritage
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Orford ... - English Heritage
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Orford ... - English Heritage
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Small Vibration Laboratory<br />
AREA/LOCATION: STRUCTURE No. G5 was 48<br />
DATE: 1956 NGR: TM 44550 48823<br />
ORIGINAL FUNCTION: ?Garage<br />
CONSTRUCTIONAL TYPE: Brick<br />
LATEST FUNCTION: Small Vibration Laboratory<br />
DIMENSIONS: 6.95m(24ft 10ins)6.05m (19ft 10ins)<br />
Height: 2.9m (9ft 6ins)<br />
DOCUMENTARY REFERENCE: AWRE 1971 48: PSA 1973 Small Vibration Lab Garage (disused)<br />
PHOTOGRAPHS:<br />
RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER FEATURES: Associated with G5<br />
DESCRIPTION:<br />
The Small Vibration Laboratory, perhaps adapted from a garage, is a single storey rectangular building of<br />
brick cavity wall construction faced in Burwell whites laid to stretcher bond contrasting with a red brick<br />
face to the west. It has a flat 17cm thick concrete roof. Metal framed windows with concrete sills and<br />
lintels are used throughout, on the insides of the windows are wooden runners for blinds or covers.<br />
The building is entered from the west through a double door opening protected by a projecting red<br />
brick porch laid to stretcher bond which projects 1.26m (4ft 2ins)from the face of the building. This<br />
appears to be a later modification as this wall overlies an earlier metal rail door stop. In the south<br />
elevation is a double light window, the east elevation has three double light windows and the north<br />
elevation has a double light window. The western end of the building appears to have been reconstructed,<br />
the westernmost 0.9m (3ft)of which appears to have be rebuilt and laid to <strong>English</strong> bond.<br />
Internally is a solid concrete plinth 1.57m (5ft)x 0.61m (2ft) x 0.9m (2ft 11ins)on top of<br />
which is a steel plate, on the floor are three steel plates, probably for machinery mounting.<br />
Against the north wall are two power cable inlets, and against the south wall a single inlet.<br />
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