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
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2024
- Type
- Shelter
- Period
- Contemporary
- Address
- Former RAF Alconbury: Petrol, Oil and Lubricant (POL) Refueller Vehicle Shelter (Building Number 215), Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, the Stukeleys, PE28 4WX
- OS grid reference
- TL 217 772
- Coordinates
- 52.3795, -0.21294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Petrol, Oil and Lubricant (POL) Vehicle Refueller Shelter at the former RAF Alconbury was built in 1988 for the United States Air Force. Designed by C Cavenagh and constructed by Fairclough Civil Engineering Limited, this structure is made of monolithic reinforced concrete.
The shelter has a rectangular double design, oriented from north-north-east to south-south-west. Its exterior resembles a double garage, featuring two pairs of blast-proof double-leaf steel doors beneath a continuous concrete drip course at the north end. A T-shaped roof ventilator is positioned above these doors. At the rear, there are two emergency escape hatchways, each topped with a T-shaped roof ventilator, while the return walls are blind.
Inside, the shelter is divided into two garages, each measuring 4.8 meters wide by 17.35 meters long. A reinforced concrete fire wall, 0.25 meters thick, separates the two garages, and there is a connecting door between them. The reinforced concrete floor has a maximum thickness of 0.80 meters and a minimum thickness of 0.65 meters at the main door end.
Local climate
Former RAF Alconbury: Petrol, Oil and Lubricant (POL) Refueller Vehicle Shelter (Building Number 215) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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