RAF Davidstow Moor, Air Ministry Bombing Teacher is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 2011. Bombing teacher.
RAF Davidstow Moor, Air Ministry Bombing Teacher
- WRENN ID
- carved-mullion-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 2011
- Type
- Bombing teacher
- OS grid reference
- SX 146 858
- Coordinates
- 50.64235, -4.62308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Air Ministry bombing teacher at RAF Davidstow Moor is a two-storey building with a 1½ storey annex on the east side and a single storey boiler house attached to the north wall, featuring a chimney stack that projects from the northwest corner of the main structure. The walls are constructed of brick in English bond and are covered with a cement render, maintaining their original height, although the shallow corrugated asbestos pitched roof has been lost. The west gable and south wall do not have any windows, while the east annex includes a single small window on the ground floor, and the east gable of the main building has one window on the top floor. The south elevation has a door accessed by a single concrete step leading to the ground floor, along with two windows on the first floor. The boiler room features a west-facing door and a single north-facing window, with small ventilation grills present in each wall.
Inside, the ground floor consists of a large open space that includes a projecting bomb aimers' balcony extending into the room from the eastern annex. A metal ladder provides access to the first floor from this balcony. The reinforced concrete first floor has a large, central, rectangular projection hole with a brick-built projector platform above it. Additional smaller holes in the floor would have accommodated cables and other components of the bomb teacher mechanism.
Local climate
RAF Davidstow Moor, Air Ministry Bombing Teacher sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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