Flying Boat Hangars at Former Raf Mount Batten is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 2003. Hangar. 1 related planning application.
Flying Boat Hangars at Former Raf Mount Batten
- WRENN ID
- long-bonework-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 2003
- Type
- Hangar
- Address
- Flying Boat Hangars at Former Raf Mount Batten, City of Plymouth, PL9 9XH
- OS grid reference
- SX 488 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35844, -4.12674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The flying boat hangars at the former RAF Mount Batten were built in 1917. They are constructed from corrugated iron and asbestos sheeting over a steel frame, featuring a rectangular plan. The structure includes two side-opening 'Type-F' hangars that are connected by ancillary outshuts and a central winch house, with former workshops and offices in rear lean-tos. The hangars are supported by steel stanchions, each held up by steel rakers, and have steel-framed roof trusses with a lattice girder spanning the main door opening. The central winch house is single-storey and has a sliding door. These hangars, similar to the notable group at Calshott in Hampshire, are an important example of early aviation structures and are linked to a significant history of defensive structures in the Plymouth area.
Local climate
Flying Boat Hangars at Former Raf Mount Batten sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% 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 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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