Operations Block, Banff (Boyndie) Airfield is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 April 2004. Operations block.
Operations Block, Banff (Boyndie) Airfield
- WRENN ID
- standing-pediment-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 April 2004
- Type
- Operations block
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1942, Wimpey Construction. Low, horizontal, single storey, disused Second World War operations block with stepped flat roof, and rare survival of interior detail. Brick and some dry-dash, with 6" reinforced concrete roofs.
S ELEVATION: blank elevation of briefing rooms with taller blank elevation of operations room set back at centre.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorway to centre of low blast wall leading to briefing room at left, slightly taller HVAC rooms projecting at right with altered openings.
N ELEVATION: altered openings to HVAC room at left, dominant vertically-emphasised stack with ventilator behind at centre, and operations room to right.
INTERIOR: operations room with remains of hand painted wartime data including detail of fallen aircraft and crews, and raised viewing cubicles also with hand painted data on walls (see Notes).
Detailed Attributes
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