Much Marcle Garage

MATERIALS: the building is constructed with a timber frame clad in corrugated metal. The doors and interior partitions and fittings are in timber, with timber windows.

PLAN: the main, former hangar, building is a simple rectangle on plan, with double doors to the front flanked by small offices. It is orientated NW-SE, and measures approximately 73 feet (22.4m) by 38 feet (11.5m). There is a separate lean-to extension to the south-west side.

EXTERIOR: the building’s main elevation has a segmental arched roof forming a tympanum above central double timber doors, which are flanked by multi-paned timber windows which fill most of the remainder of the elevation. The rear elevation has a similar segmental-arched roof, a wide doorway with a sliding door, and to one side is a multi-paned, horizontal window with closely-set timber mullions. Each of the long sides has square, four-paned timber windows. The south-west side has been extended by the addition of a small lean-to clad to match the main building. The roof carries elaborately-scrolled brackets which were formerly topped by gas lamps.

INTERIOR: the workshop space which occupies most of the building has few features, and is dominated by the lattice construction of the Belfast roof trusses, of which there are six, including those at either end. The exterior cladding is fixed to timber uprights, three to each bay, which are left exposed in the interior. The south-eastern bay houses a central double doorway, flanked by offices which are divided from the workshop by partitions which have flat roofs well below the level of the roof trusses. The office in the southern corner has timber matchboard partitions and a panelled door which opens in two parts. That to the opposite corner has internal partitioning which was originally installed in a railway carriage, with a sliding door to an internal office, and a drop-down hatchway inserted upside-down. The rooms are matchboarded to full height, and across the ceiling.