Can you help identify this building type for me, please?

hedgehopper
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27 Feb 2014 15:06 #1 by hedgehopper

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I recently saw this building in a farmyard close to the supposed site of the enigmatic Temple Guiting airfield. The structure is precast concrete with each bay made from eight slabs arranged in vertical pairs. The original roof structure was corrugated asbestos, but half of this has been replaced with sheet metal of a similar profile. Can anyone tell me the maker of this type of structure, and whether they were used for airfield accommodation or facilities, please?

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27 Feb 2014 20:14 #2 by Paul Francis

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Interesting post, I can tell you what its not, but what it is, is quite difficult. It is a concrete post and panel hut with a pitched roof clad with Trafford tiles, probably 24 ft span - though it looks wider, it might be a Ministry of Works standard hut, but without looking in side its difficult to say - and the windows are a bit troubling. It might be late war or immediately post-war. Not much help I know, but get some pics of the interior and then we will try again.

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27 Feb 2014 20:43 #3 by Alex Brown

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I had no idea that particular style of asbestos sheet was known as Trafford - you learn a new thing every day!
Leading on from this a Google search revealed that asbestos removal work costs are eligible for 150% tax relief. Sorry it's not really relevant, but it is quite interesting...

Personally my unscientific "gut feeling" is that this is post-war, as Paul suggests.

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27 Feb 2014 23:57 #4 by hedgehopper

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Thanks guys- I will have to follow up and make local inquiries- no people around to ask today but a few vociferous dogs!
Dave

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28 Feb 2014 08:30 #5 by Peter Kirk

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It looks a little like a scaled up version of my granddad's old garage that I recall from the early 1960s, it was new in the late 1940s. One of the sections had cracked and the concrete fell off revealing PSP reinforcing.

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