Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
14387
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/02/1994
Date of Amendment
18/02/1994
Name of Property
Hangar and Annexes
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Pembroke Dock
Town
Locality
The Dockyard
Easting
196105
Northing
203676
Street Side
Location
Situated on E side of main Dockyard avenue, SE of Sunderland House.
Description
Broad Class
Defence
Period
History
1934-5 large 'B' type hangar, built as one of a pair for maintenance of RAF seaplanes.
Exterior
Riveted steel girder frame, 162ft 7ins by 121ft 4ins (49.53m x 36.96m) with saw-tooth ridged roof of half-bays each end and 5 between. Concrete-encased steel piers 59ft 9ins (18.21m) high to angles and up to each gable apex, steel uprights between. Concrete infill between to a height of 30 ft. (9.14m) and corrugated iron cladding to upper half. Steel gantry around below gables. E front clear opening of 160 ft by 40 ft (48.76m x 12.19m) with six large rolling steel doors with spaced steel plating to allow gravel infill against bomb fragments. Rendered and painted two-storey flat-roofed range on S side, single storey ranges to W and N.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of only two surviving seaplane hangars of this type in England and Wales (there were two overseas at Gibraltar and Seletar). Base opened 1930 and two squadrons were deployed initially, more in wartime when the base played a major role in convoy protection. Closed 1959, the last flying-boat withdrawn February 1957.
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