Ze7 Lippitts Hill: Long Range

Building: former accommodation range built 1939-40 by the War Office. Now used for police training exercises.

Materials: this timber-framed and weather-boarded, single-storey range stands on regularly spaced brick piers, has metal framed casement windows and a felted shallow pitched timber roof.

Plan: rectangular in plan.

Exterior: a single storey, eleven bay building supported on a series of brick piers with a shallow pitched, felted roof. It is timber framed and weather-boarded, accessed via a plain, single panel timber door in each gable end, another at the southern end of the east elevation and two in the west elevation. Each bay, with the exception of 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. Slightly smaller but similar windows are positioned in the gables. The position of the blocked doorway is marked by a set of three concrete steps.

Interior: the interior is utilitarian with tongue and groove wainscoting to window height surviving around the interior of the external walls. All the windows appear original and retain the 1940s ‘crittal’ style window furniture. Most rooms are open to the roof with exposed king-post trusses and timber panelled roof. Where this isn’t the case, suspended ceilings have been inserted. Stud partitions have been used to subdivide the space for police training exercises but the main structure remains virtually unaltered. Where doors survive they comprise one-over-three panel timber doors.