Former Control Tower, Langford Lodge Airfield, 97 Largy Road, Crumlin, Co Antrim

A one and two-storey flat roofed and rendered brick building in a Modern Movement style with asymmetrical elevations, laid out on a T-shaped plan. Main entrance faces south-west. Walls of smooth cement render, slightly spalling or chipped in small areas to reveal red brick carcass beneath; small terracotta louvered air bricks at top and bottom of ground floor walls all round, with generally large windows to main rooms and narrow windows to minor rooms. Windows metal framed, small paned, with horizontal glazing bars, comprising fixed lights with top-hung vents; some parts of frames badly rusted. With the exception of a large window in the north corner which is set in a conventional vertical plane, windows are set in an angled plane, canted out at the top. Projecting concrete cills; projecting concrete heads to all windows of single storey block and two narrow windows in upper floor of two-storey block, otherwise windows are set in plain unmoulded reveals. Flat concrete roofs to both storeys, the roof of the lower block continuing as a cantilevered canopy projecting around three sides of the two-storey block at first floor level. Roofs and canopy covered with what appears to be a poured bituminous asphalt screed; tubular steel railings on perforated vertical angle-section steel posts, mounted all round perimeter of both roofs and canopy. Asbestos gutter to ground floor on entrance front and to first floor on rear elevation, damaged on entrance front and mostly missing on rear elevation; asbestos downpipes, partly missing on side facing south-east; cast iron soil pipe and waste pipes on entrance front. Main entrance is a rectangular flush timber door with a raised rectangular smooth cement rendered surround, approached by three concrete steps bounded by low plinth walls. Side facing north-west has a rectangular timber door, 4-panel, to ground floor leading to a former switch room, now an enclosed store; same elevation has a rectangular door in first floor leading onto roof of ground floor. On side elevation facing south-east is a steel runged cat ladder leading up to roof of upper storey; to right of that in a recess is a small later infill wall with an exposed timber fascia now rotted badly and revealing the red brickwork carcass behind. SETTING: The building stands isolated in a flat area of grassland and cornfields in a former airfield which is now used for agricultural and manufacturing purposes, with distant views to Gartree Church to the north-east and Lough Neagh to the west. Modern factory buildings and some war-time stores and a hangar stand well to the east. Concrete area immediately to the front of the control tower, with a concrete path around its perimeter.