More information : Airport House, Purley Way, a Grade II Listed Building. 1927-28 by the Directorate of Works and Buildings, Air Ministry. The first purpose-built air passenger terminal building in Britain incorporating the Croydon airport control tower. Main building of 2 storeys, faced with blocks of grey composition stone. Front of 7 bays with central 3 bays projecting with wide entrance with semi-circular window over, flanked by 2 tall semi-circular headed openings. All rusticated. (1)
Airport House. By 1997 the building had been rennovated internally and was used as an "international business centre". It front of the building the last aircraft to fly from the aiport in 1959 has been mounted on pylons (A De Haviland Heron registration G-AOXL). (2)
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