Washford Transmitting Station

The Washford Transmitting Station is a radio transmitting station built in 1933, with a minor addition made in 1949. It was designed by the architects Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie for the British Broadcasting Corporation. The building features load-bearing concrete walls that are treated externally to resemble Portland Stone, with an ashlar dado, cornice, and quoins, as well as coursed punched stone and a flat-topped bitumen-covered roof.

The layout of the station is long and symmetrical, oriented north-south. The main entrance block is rectangular and includes battery rooms, with three bay returns. Behind this is a square transmitter room, which is illuminated only by an octagonal skylight. To the left is a minor addition in a similar style, which was vacant as of 1983. Further behind, there are two rectangular blocks with four bay returns, separated by a five bay section that includes a two bay block at the north end, which houses transmitting equipment still in use as of 1983.

The facade is two storeys high and features a symmetrical arrangement of three, one, one, one, and three bays. It includes Crittall metal windows that are mullioned and transomed. The symmetrical wings have three recessed window bays that rise nearly to the cornice, with metal panels dividing the first and second floors. The facade has a recessed longer section with a four-light window flanked by two-light windows, and below the central double-glazed metal doors in a projecting flat-roofed porch are two-light windows. The unmoulded granite architrave is dated 1933 and features the BBC logo above it. A shallow stepped tablet is located at the center above the cornice, partially cut by a rectangular moulded concrete panel that displays the BBC coat of arms and the motto: "Nation shall speak peace unto nation." All rainwater heads on the returns carry the inscription "19 BBC 33." The windows on the rear half of the building are now blank panels.

Inside, the space is entirely functional with painted brick walls.