Unusual building?

I've been going past this old building once a week since july 1986. Don't suppose that it has any airfield connection at all, but as it's only members that can reply I thought that I'd put it on this thread. This building is along the A44 [on the right] about 3/4 of a mile before the junction into Chipping Norton. It's facing the old airfield and stands about a mile from where the tower was.



The fence posts have thick strong wire running-through them.

I was thinking maybe telephone related. It has that feel about it. Maybe an exchange ? Although why the high pitched roof ?

water works?; most exchanges I have seen have no windows

From photos posted elsewhere on the net showing the interior of this building, it appears to be a GPO rural telephone exchange or repeater station.
I haven't pinned down the actual type as yet, it looks like a Type D exchange but it's only half the size...

All the best,
PB

1950s design?
It's too big for a repeater I would have thought, so my money would be on a small exchange.

airfields wrote:

This building is along the A44 [on the right] about 3/4 of a mile before the junction into Chipping Norton.

Guess it's HERE

Arcade wrote:

1950s design?
It's too big for a repeater I would have thought, so my money would be on a small exchange.

Apparently there's a 1948 datestone on the wall.
The layout is similar to some of the medium-sized rural exchange and/or repeater stations, with a staff room and battery room on each side of the main building, but as I say this one seems at the smaller end of the medium scale.
Having said that, the overall size and arrangement are close to that of a GPO Type R3 Repeater Building.

Note that the GPO Types R1-5 Repeater Buildings were primarily for general civil traffic, as opposed to the protected/hardened military-orientated PR-x Types.

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P wrote:

Apparently there's a 1948 datestone on the wall.
The layout is similar to some of the medium-sized rural exchange and/or repeater stations, with a staff room and battery room on each side of the main building, but as I say this one seems at the smaller end of the medium scale.
Having said that, the overall size and arrangement are close to that of a GPO Type R3 Repeater Building.

Note that the GPO Types R1-5 Repeater Buildings were primarily for general civil traffic, as opposed to the protected/hardened military-orientated PR-x Types.

Late 40's was my second guess!

The only repeater buildings that I regularly see are the tiny ones like those along the A14. One window in one end, door in the other, about the size of or smaller than a single garage.