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Building 80 (Workshops and Parachute Store)

A Grade II Listed Building in Duxford, Cambridgeshire

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Latitude: 52.0947 / 52°5'41"N

Longitude: 0.1297 / 0°7'46"E

OS Eastings: 545986

OS Northings: 246182

OS Grid: TL459461

Mapcode National: GBR L8N.PLZ

Mapcode Global: VHHKP.6MD1

Plus Code: 9F4234VH+VV

Entry Name: Building 80 (Workshops and Parachute Store)

Listing Date: 1 December 2005

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1392878

English Heritage Legacy ID: 500347

ID on this website: 101392878

Location: Heathfield, South Cambridgeshire, CB22

County: Cambridgeshire

District: South Cambridgeshire

Civil Parish: Duxford

Built-Up Area: Duxford Airfield

Traditional County: Cambridgeshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Duxford St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Ely

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DUXFORD

1767/0/10035 SOUTH CAMP, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (FORME
01-DEC-05 R RAF DUXFORD)
Building 80 (Workshops and Parachute S
tore)

GV II
Carpenters' workshop and dope shop. 1917, by the War Office's Directorate of Fortifications and Works. Painted brickwork walls and piers, low-pitched corrugated iron (formerly slate) roofs.
PLAN: rectangular plan, comprising two parallel gabled ranges.
EXTERIOR: single storey. South elevation has twelve 16-pane steel casements, with two doorways off centre, one to right partially blocked. Similar elevation to north, the twin-gabled end elevations each having four 12-pane steel casements (except one later C20 window to north-east gable) and plank double doors.
INTERIOR: timber trusses with iron tension rods.

HISTORY: Duxford is the finest and best-preserved example of a fighter base representative of the period up to 1945 in Britain, with a uniquely 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. See descriptions of the aircraft hangars for further historical details.

The Training Depot Station at Duxford is the most complete WWI airfield group, with hangars and ancillary buildings, in Britain. The training of pilots for service overseas formed a critical aspect of Britain's air service in the First World War period, and the Training Depot Stations - initiated in 1917, and of which 63 were built by November 1918 - comprised the largest airfield construction programme of the First World War period. Each TDS comprised three flying units, each having a coupled general service shed, and one repair section hangar (the only surviving examples of the latter is at Old Sarum, Wiltshire) for the provision of serviceable engines and aircraft. Other specialist buildings, such as carpenters' shops, dope and engine repair shops, and technical and plane stores, characterised these sites.

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