Building record 7109/1/5 - Former WWII RAF Store, RAF Husbands Bosworth

A 1945 plan of the airfield shows the building as No. 15, ‘Gas Clothing and Respirator Store’. It formed part of a complex of RAF storage and utility buildings. The building was latterly used for general storage as part of Airfield Farm. Converted to domestic use

{1} Original construction: rendered 4.5 inch walls with piers at ten feet centres supporting 18 feet span steel trusses carrying corrugated asbestos sheeting; at the time of recording the roof and internal ceilings had been lost as well as much of the external render. Nine bays; the southernmost bay and a half originally used as a separate workshop. Air Ministry works drawings show that the Gas Clothing and Respirator Stores buildings were typically sub-divided internally with a workshop, distinct from the main store, within the end bays (bays 1-2), with an area reserved for 22 respirator racks (bays 2-3) and for 11 gas clothing racks (bays 4-9).

The former store at Sulby appears to have been adopted by Airfield Farm and put to use as a general purpose agricultural shed. It appears that this building became additional to the farms requirements. It then suffered neglect and due on its insubstantial ‘temporary’ construction, quickly fell into structural decay.

<1> Garwood, A., 2017, Former RAF Store, Sulby Hall, Old Drive, Sulby, Northamptonshire: Historic Building Recording (Report). SNN111224.

Record last edited

Sep 3 2018 11:28AM