Ze7 Lippitts Hill: Office And Chapel Building

The Office and Chapel Block, built in 1939-40 by the War Office, is a single-storey building with a timber frame. It features timber rusticated weatherboard cladding on a brick plinth, a shallow-pitched timber roof covered with felt, and an off-centre brick ridge stack. The building has metal framed casement windows throughout.

The structure has a U-shaped plan and consists of six bays. The front (east) elevation includes a recessed centre with a plank and batten timber door. Each arm of the U-shaped building has a double pile roof, indicating that two, two-bay huts have been attached to a longer six-bay range. Most bays on the west and east elevations are defined by pairs of multi-paned metal-framed windows with horizontal glazing bars, while some bays and gable ends feature similar glazing patterns, with some single windows.

Inside, access is through the central door in the east elevation. The interior is utilitarian, with lined walls and ceilings, and a corridor running north to south that leads to small offices, WCs, and locker rooms on either side. There is one room that may have been a chapel, which is now used as a workshop. The building retains 'high waisted' doors from the 1930s, featuring one panel above three vertical panels, similar to other buildings from the same period on the site. One room displays some stencilling in foliate designs on the ceiling and includes a heavy brick stove, likely of central European design, indicating it may have been modified for use by German prisoners of war, possibly as a chapel. The north-east room has been internally cased in bullet-proof material.