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Summary

Large U-shaped building with a tall detached building inbetween. Built of rendered brick under corrugated asbestos sheet roofs carried on steel trusses. Formerly the main stores and fabric store for the wartime airfield.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST10NW/41/46

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• STOREHOUSE (Built, World War II - 1939 AD (Between) to 1945 AD (Between))

Full description

Francis, P., 1995, Blackdown Hills Airfield Survey. Dunkeswell and Upottery, No. 53, Fig. 23 (Report - Survey). SDV312951.

Building 138. Main stores and fabric store. Construction: rendered 4.5 inch brick with piers at ten feet centres supporting 28 feet span steel trusses carrying corrugated asbestos sheeting. The fabric store has rendered walls 20 feet tall, nine inches wide, with piers at ten feet centres supporting 18 feet span steel trusses supporting corrugated asbestos sheeting. Function: main stores consisting of a U-shaped building with one wing for the storage of aero engine and mt spares and the other used for barrack type stores (clothing). Between the two wings of the 'u' is a tall detached fabric store with large folding timber doors on the front elevation. This part of the complex was used for the storage of large airframe components. Associated with buildings 135 and 136. Building in excellent condition - unusual to see original timber folding doors on the fabric store, now used as a garage workshop.

Ordnance Survey, 2025, Mastermap 2025 (Cartographic). SDV366286.

Large broadly U or H-shaped building with an additional rectangular building in the centre, B11 and B12.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4948 - Blackdown Hills Airfield Survey

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