Bellman Hangar, Brooklands Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1999. Hangar. 11 related planning applications.
Bellman Hangar, Brooklands Museum
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pavement-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Runnymede and Weybridge MP: Dr Ben Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1999
- Type
- Hangar
- Address
- Bellman Hangar, Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Road, Weybridge, KT13 0QN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 070 629
- Coordinates
- 51.35559, -0.46369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bellman Hangar at Brooklands Museum is a historic structure built in the late 1940s for Vickers-Armstrong, commissioned by the Ministry of Aircraft Production. It was manufactured by Head Wrightson and Co. Ltd of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. The hangar features corrugated iron cladding over a steel frame made of rolled sections, with both the walls and roof constructed using standard units that are joined at the corners by a standard corner unit. It has a rectangular plan measuring 180 feet by 95 feet, with a height of 25 feet and sliding doors located in the end gables. The interior showcases the exposed steel frame.
Construction of this hangar began on September 16th, during the height of the Battle of Britain, following a devastating Luftwaffe raid on the Vickers factory at Brooklands. It was completed by December 12th. The hangars were designed with a clear internal height of 25 feet to accommodate Vickers Wellington bombers for essential repair work. Approximately 400 Bellman hangars were constructed at RAF and Ministry of Aircraft Production factory airfields, most of which had a lower height of 16 feet 6 inches that could not accommodate Wellingtons.
Originally aligned north-south on the Motor Circuit's finishing straight, the Bellman hangar was relocated to its current site off the finishing straight in 2017.
Local climate
Bellman Hangar, Brooklands Museum sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
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