Monument Number 1384858 |
| Hob Uid: 1384858 | |
Location :
Oxfordshire
Cherwell
Launton
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| Grid Ref : SP5906024420 |
| Summary : A guardhouse, formerly incorporating a fire party house (fire station) at RAF Bicester technical site. It was built in 1926. The role of fire party office was taken over in 1938 by a seperate building recorded as SP 52 SE 94. It is a single storey brick building with a slate roof, featuring a small bell turret centered over an unenclosed verandah to the front. To the rear of the building are cells and a walled exercise yard. The building is situated on a main avenue bisecting the technical site, leading to the hangars and flying field. The guardhouse was recommended for consideration as a potential future Listed Building by an English Heritage report of May 2003. |
More information : An English Heritage report produced in May 2003 recommended that the 1926 "Guard and Fire Party House " (Building 89) be considered for potential future Listed Building status at Grade II. The report describes the building as "a long rectangular building containing guardhouse and office, with a bell turret centered over the unenclosed verandah to the front and with cells and a walled exercise yard to the rear. It is prominently sited at the main gate, facing the Station Offices (147) across a main avenue bisecting the site, and leading to the hangars and flying field." (1)
Plan SP 5824 and SP 5924 shows a building matching to situation photographs of the guardhouse located on the north side of the entrance to the main artery through the site at SP 5906 2442.(2)
Listed at grade II. (3) |