Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Eight hut in a double row. Brick walls laid in continous bond (bricks laid on their sides to save materials) and asbestos-covered pitched roof supported by timber trusses. The walls are supported externally by thin pilasters and internally display the scarlines of internal divisions. Windows are of Crittal type. There is a door at either end of the huts and toilet cubicles at one end. Some of the doors have been modified or enlarged for post war use. One of the buildings has lost part of its roof. The buildings are close to other structures ( TR 13 NW 74 - 76) and the outline of footngs for other buildings can be seem.

Monument Types

• BARRACKS (abandoned 194?, Modern - 1940 AD? to 1945 AD? (between))

Full description

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Eight hut in a double row. Brick walls laid in continous bond (bricks laid on their sides to save materials) and asbestos-covered pitched roof supported by timber trusses. The walls are supported externally by thin pilasters and internally display the scarlines of internal divisions. Windows are of Crittal type. There is a door at either end of the huts and toilet cubicles at one end. Some of the doors have been modified or enlarged for post war use. One of the buildings has lost part of its roof. The buildings are close to other structures ( TR 13 NW 74 - 76) and the outline of footngs for other buildings can be seem.(1-3)

<1> Ashword, Chris, 1985/1990, Action Stations 9: Military Airfields of the Central South & South East (Monograph). SKE8330.

<2> Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders, 2001, Kent's Defence Heritage (Unpublished document). SKE6956.

<3> Ministry of Defence (RAF), 1946, Photograph, 106G/UK/1449/3342 (Photograph (Print)). SKE8331.

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