Bournville Radio Sailing and Model Boat Club Boathouse and associated concrete boating pond

A purpose-built boathouse for the storage of model boats and members facilities, built in 1933, and accompanying concrete boating lake.

MATERIALS: the building is of timber construction, with elm weatherboarding and pantile roof.

PLAN: the boathouse was formerly a T-plan but later extension have made this roughly rectangular on plan.

EXTERIOR: the boathouse is clad in tarred rustic elm weatherboarding, and has a hipped, pantile roof on which is a central, squared, louvred cupola, with a pyramidal roof, also pantiled. The central portion is of five bays, with a projecting and gabled porch in the centre of the principal elevation with double wooden doors with arched top; the height of this allows for easy movement of the boats. Windows are timber top-hung sashes. Short hipped roof projections are set back on the ends. Their side elevations are unfenestrated. The rear has a projecting section of two flat roof extensions, also clad in timber weatherboarding, flanking a central hip-roofed bay.

INTERIOR: principally a large open room, primarily for storage of the model boats. The roof timbers are exposed. In the north end of the building is a fixed boat measuring tank which is understood to have been installed in the mid-C20. To the rear and ends of the building, there are further small storage rooms and a member’s kitchenette.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the teardrop shaped pool set to the north of the boathouse is a purpose-built structure, with an even depth and concrete base.

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