Old Sarum Airfield: Workshops Immediately To N Of Central Hangar (Hangar 2)

The workshops located immediately to the north of the central hangar (Hangar 2) at Old Sarum Airfield were built in 1918. They are constructed from painted single-skin brick with internal buttresses and feature a corrugated asbestos-cement roof supported by steel trusses.

The building is designed as a paired single-storey shed with 13 bays and twin gables at each end. Originally a large open space, it has since been subdivided. On the south side, which faces Hangar No 2, there is a 2-bay lean-to that includes a boiler house.

In terms of exterior details, the workshops have 12-pane steel casement windows where original, with some later steel replacements. There are three paired plank doors on the south side, along with a brick stack for the lean-to projection. The west elevation has a pair of doors on the left gable, while the north side features both double and single plank doors. Additionally, there is a later 20th-century flat-roofed porch at the east end.

Historically, Old Sarum Airfield is significant as it retains one of the most complete groups of technical buildings associated with a Training Depot Station from the First World War period, following Duxford in Cambridgeshire and Leuchars in Scotland. Despite the loss of one of the original three paired hangars, this site remains one of the most intact hangar groupings from that era in Britain, particularly as it relates to an airfield that has undergone fewer alterations than any other pre-1918 airfield.