Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
14388
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/02/1994
Date of Amendment
18/02/1994
Name of Property
Hangar & Annexes
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Pembroke Dock
Town
Locality
The Dockyard
Easting
196292
Northing
203625
Street Side
Location
Situated some 100m SW of eastern entry to dockyard and 100m N of former chapel.
Description
Broad Class
Defence
Period
History
1934-5 'B' type large hangar built for servicing RAF seaplanes.
Exterior
Rivetted steel girder frame 162ft 7ins (49.53m) by 121ft 4ins (36.96m) with saw-tooth ridged roof of half bays each end and 5 between. Concrete-encased steel piers to angles and up to each gable apex, 59ft 9ins (18.21m) high, steel uprights between. Concrete infill between to 30ft (9.14m) and corrugated iron cladding to upper half. Iron gantry around below gables. Full-height opening on W front, giving clear opening of 160ft by 40ft (48.76m by 12.19m) closed by 6 large rolling steel doors with spaced steel plating to allow infill of gravel to 20ft (6.09m) to absorb bomb fragments. Rendered brick 2-storey flat-roofed range along N side.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of only two surviving sea-plane hangars of this type in England and Wales. Base opened 1930 and two squadrons were based here initially, more in wartime when it played a major role in convoy protection. The base closed in 1959, the last flying boats being withdrawn February 1957.
Old photographs suggest that this was originally built as two bays with half bays each end, and enlarged to match No. 1 hangar before 1938.
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