Former RAF Alconbury: Petrol, Oil and Lubricant (POL) Refueller Vehicle Shelter (Building Number 215) is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 2024. A Contemporary Shelter.
Former RAF Alconbury: Petrol, Oil and Lubricant (POL) Refueller Vehicle Shelter (Building Number 215)
- WRENN ID
- blind-rubblework-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2024
- Type
- Shelter
- Period
- Contemporary
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Petrol, Oil and Lubricant (POL) Vehicle Refueller Shelter at former RAF Alconbury, built in 1988 for the United States Air Force. It was designed by C Cavenagh and constructed by Fairclough Civil Engineering Limited.
MATERIALS: of monolithic reinforced concrete.
PLAN: a rectangular double shelter, aligned north-north-east to south-south-west.
EXTERIOR: its external form is of a double garage with two pairs of blast-proof double-leaf steel doors under a continuous concrete drip course at the north end. Above is a T-shaped roof ventilator. To the rear there are two emergency escape hatchways, above which are two T-shaped roof ventilators. The return walls are blind.
INTERIOR: the shelter's interior is divided into two garages, each 4.8m wide by 17.35m long, separated by a reinforced concrete fire wall 0.25m thick, with a connecting door between the two, and a reinforced concrete floor measuring 0.80m at its maximum and 0.65m at its minimum at the main door end.
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