ZE7 Lippitts Hill: Long Range

The former accommodation range, built in 1939-40 by the War Office, is now used for police training exercises. This single-storey building features a timber frame and weatherboarding, standing on regularly spaced brick piers. It has metal-framed casement windows and a shallow pitched timber roof covered with felt.

The building has a rectangular plan and consists of eleven bays, supported by brick piers. Access is provided through plain, single-panel timber doors located in each gable end, one at the southern end of the east elevation, and two in the west elevation. Most bays, except those with doors and the second bay of the east elevation where a former door has been blocked, are marked by original multi-paned metal-framed windows. The gables also feature slightly smaller but similar windows, and the blocked doorway is indicated by a set of three concrete steps.

Inside, the space is utilitarian, with tongue and groove wainscoting around the interior of the external walls up to window height. The original windows retain 1940s ‘crittal’ style window furniture. Most rooms are open to the roof, showcasing exposed king-post trusses and a timber panelled roof, although some areas have suspended ceilings. Stud partitions have been added to divide the space for police training, but the main structure remains largely unaltered. Surviving doors are typically one-over-three panel timber doors.