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FORMER AIRCRAFT HANGAR APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HEADLEY HALL FARM

FORMER AIRCRAFT HANGAR APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HEADLEY HALL FARM, SPEN COMMON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313179
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER AIRCRAFT HANGAR APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HEADLEY HALL FARM
Statutory Address:: FORMER AIRCRAFT HANGAR APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HEADLEY HALL FARM, SPEN COMMON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313179
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER AIRCRAFT HANGAR APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HEADLEY HALL FARM
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER AIRCRAFT HANGAR APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HEADLEY HALL FARM, SPEN COMMON LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER AIRCRAFT HANGAR APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HEADLEY HALL FARM, SPEN COMMON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Bramham cum Oglethorpe
National Grid Reference:: SE 44691 41325

Details

BRAMHAM CUM OGLETHORPE SPEN COMMON LANE SE44SW LS23 (west side, off) 1/51 Former aircraft hangar approx. 200 metres south-east of Headley Hall Farm

II

Former aircraft hangar, now used as barn (etc). 1916, for Royal Flying Corps; slightly altered. Timber construction, with wall panels said to be of steel and concrete laminate, segmental roof with felted cladding. Large rectangular structure approx. 50x30 metres, on east-west axis, with attached single-storey offices on north side. Laminated timber wall posts with external buttresses of the same construction, horizontal ties to these passing through the wall at mid-level and raked ties likewise passing through to the roof trusses, continuous small-paned glazing between these ties; full-height sliding doors at both ends (altered, and replaced or faced with corrugated iron sheeting), with vertical windows and central ventilator in the segmental gable. Offices on north side of similar construction. Interior:laminated timber roof trusses of segmental latticed girder construction, the outer end boarded, linked longitudinally by a pair of purlins mounted on the tie-beams, carrying closely- spaced purlins and diagonally-boarded cladding (said to be cross-diagonal laminate); some original wall lettering in the bays. History: only surviving building of No 38 TDS (Training Depot Station), Tadcaster, opened in Spring of 1916 with arrival of B Flight of 33 Squadron, and later 46 Reserve Squadron, initially for air defence of Leeds Sheffield area; subsequently TDS (normally the largest 1st World War aerodromes, bases for squadrons mobilising for overseas service); closed June 1919, used as aircraft store, later sold. Item is good example of its type and date; same construction as at RAF Museum, Hendon, and Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire. References: Imperial War Museum (ref 105/SE/445 413) and Bruce Robertson Aviation Archaeology 2nd edition 1983 especially pp 41-44 and Appendix A.

Listing NGR: SE4469141325

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Legacy System number:: 342211
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Robertson, B, Aviation Archaeology, (1983), 41-44
Robertson, B, Aviation Archaeology, (1983), Appendix A

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.