RAF Davidstow Moor, Turret Instructional Building is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 2011. Instructional building.
RAF Davidstow Moor, Turret Instructional Building
- WRENN ID
- eternal-chamber-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 2011
- Type
- Instructional building
- OS grid reference
- SX 146 858
- Coordinates
- 50.64237, -4.62328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Turret Instructional Building at RAF Davidstow Moor is a tall, single-storey structure built from rendered concrete blocks, featuring a pitched corrugated asbestos roof. The main north elevation is characterized by a pair of large doorways with louvres above, set within prominent buttressed door cases. Flanking the doorways are narrow, tall windows with their original metal frames. The gable walls are plain, with narrow central buttresses that extend to the height of the ridge. The south wall includes two large boarded windows and two evenly spaced full-height buttresses.
Inside, the building consists of two rooms separated by a solid concrete block wall, each accessed through the large doorways in the north wall. Both rooms have a suspended ceiling made from a wooden frame, with the original white board screen still visible in some areas. An original electrical fitting is located on the eastern wall of the western room.
Local climate
RAF Davidstow Moor, Turret Instructional Building 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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