Ze7 Lippitts Hill: Commander'S Office

Building: Commander's Office, built 1939-40 by the War Office.

Materials: a timber framed range standing on a brick plinth with timber rusticated weatherboard cladding and metal casement windows. The shallow pitched tiled roof has a central ridge stack in brick.

Plan: of rectangular plan.

Exterior: the small, three bay single storey Commander's Office sits on a brick plinth with a central, recessed part-glazed door and metal framed casement windows to either side. Unlike other buildings on the site the glazing bars are vertical with small opening windows above.

Interior: the interior has a more domestic feel when compared to other buildings on the site but appears to have been refitted in the late C20. A corridor running north to south through the centre provides access to small offices, a kitchen and bathroom all with late C20 fixtures and fittings. The carpentry is plain with flat panel timber doors throughout but the 1940s ‘crittal’ style window furniture survives.