Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
24541
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/2001
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
North Pair of Aircraft Hangars
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Sealand
Town
Deeside
Locality
Sealand
Easting
333411
Northing
370260
Street Side
Location
Located towards the SE corner of Deeside Industrial Park and reached off the B5441. The northernmost of 2 pairs of hangars.
Description
Broad Class
Defence
Period
History
One of 3 pairs of First World War aircraft hangars, built in 1918. In 1917, the Royal Flying Corps took over the private flying school of T Murray Dutton, south of the railway line, and developed the site north of the line as a depot for service and repair of aircraft. The hangars would have accommodated up to 30 small aircraft.
The Belfast roof trusses, made by Anderson & Co, in Belfast, use a lattice of short lengths of thin softwood timbers in order to bridge large spans by lightweight trusses of low quality timber, saving costs.
Exterior
Attached pair of aircraft hangars. Brick walling, paired broad segmental roofs in corrugated material. The side walls (to E & W) consist of stepped brick piers, between which are 15 bays of rendered walling with metal small pane windows at high level in each bay; the side (E & W) elevations have single storey brick built lean-to sheds that are centrally located on each elevation. Other short lengths of taller lean-to sheds are also located on the side (W) elevation.
The entrance sides (to N and S) have fixed metal sheeting replacing original sliding doors; the sheeting has smaller metal sliding doors to each hangar at the S end. At each end of the entrance sides is a brick built housing for sliding doors consisting of 2 tall brick arches between buttresses.
Interior
The curved Belfast type lattice roof trusses are borne on brick piers; the trusses are braced longitudinally with tie-beams and braces, with zig-zag bracing in end bays. The central wall of the hangar, dividing the pair, consists of brick piers, connected by a brick wall with segmental relieving arches. The entrance end sheeting is supported by wooden framework with metal bracing.
Reason for designation
Listed as amongst the earliest purpose-built structures associated with military aviation in Wales, and for the technology of their Belfast roof trusses.
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