World War II structures, To rear of 102 Greencastle Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4JP

World War II Structures at Rear of 102 Greencastle Road, Kilkeel

This is a complex of eleven buildings forming the instructional site of Greencastle's Second World War Aerodrome. Two Air Ministry Laboratory bombing teacher blocks are described here, both Grade B1 listed structures.

Double Air Ministry Laboratory Bombing Teacher Block

This structure is almost symmetrical and contains two identical suites. It has a pitched corrugated asbestos cement roof with semicircular ridges and circular asbestos cement stops, moulded asbestos cement bargeboards, and no rainwater goods. The walls are permanent 200 millimetre thick red brickwork without buttresses, smooth cement rendered throughout.

The front elevation faces southwest and is abutted at its centre by a single storey lean-to shed with cement rendered chimney rising to the right where it meets the main block. To the right of centre is an unrendered brick chimney rising above the eaves. This elevation has a painted sheeted door at the extreme left and right sides. To the first floor, left and right of centre, are small window openings (both blocked up) without cills. Beyond these on either side are pairs of sheeted timber three-quarter height doors. The lean-to shed has a lean-to asbestos roof with cement rendered walls. Its front wall contains a three-paned steel casement window without cill; another to its left is blocked up. The left cheek is blank and the right cheek has a painted sheeted door.

Each gable is identical, abutted at centre by one-and-a-half storey lean-to structures. The remaining walls are blank except for a single small window in each gable. The northwest gable has a 2 by 4 steel casement; the southeast gable window has been boarded up. Each lean-to has a monopitch asbestos roof and rendered walls with a single window opening at ground floor (also boarded up). The cheeks are blank.

The rear northeast elevation has a single sheeted half door (a modern insertion) to ground floor left.

Single Air Ministry Laboratory Bombing Teacher Block

This structure is identical to the left portion of the double block. It has a pitched asbestos cement roof with semicircular ridges and circular asbestos cement stops, moulded asbestos cement bargeboards, and no rainwater goods. The walls are permanent 200 millimetre thick red brickwork without buttresses, smooth cement rendered.

The front elevation faces southwest and is abutted at ground floor right by a single storey lean-to shed with cement rendered chimney rising up the right corner where it meets the main block. To the right corner is a rendered chimney rising above the eaves in unrendered brick. This elevation has a blocked-up doorway at ground floor extreme left. To first floor right is a small window opening (blocked up) without cill. To the left are a pair of sheeted timber three-quarter height doors. The lean-to has a pitched asbestos roof with cement rendered walls. Its front wall has a blocked-up window opening two casements wide without cill. The left cheek is blank and the right cheek has a painted sheeted door.

The left northwest gable is abutted at centre by a one-and-a-half storey lean-to structure and to the left bay by a later one storey outhouse. The remaining walls are blank except for a single one-third top opening casement window at centre of gable. The lean-to has a monopitched asbestos roof and rendered walls with a single three-paned metal casement window at ground floor. The outhouse has a pitched corrugated metal roof, concrete blockwork walls, and a sheeted door on its left cheek.

The rear northeast elevation has a single sheeted half door (a modern insertion) to ground floor right of centre. The right southeast gable of the main block is blank.