RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 5
RAF · Wiltshire · England · United Kingdom
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 4 & 5
1 x Wardens Office.
1 x Semi detached Wardens house.
2 x 'D' type hangars 3212/36 & 1313/36.
1 x Heating plant.
Now one medium and one very large Science Museum Hangars.
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 4 & 5
Plan
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 4 & 5
2 x 'D' type hangars 3212/36 & 1313/36 and the new Science Museum building that looks huge.
Andy Amor
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 4 & 5
Science Museum, Wroughton.
A sustainable museum and archive. Designscape Architects.
Science Museum
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 4 & 5
Wardens house just outside the wire.
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 4 & 5
Type D hangar, which combines concrete construction with bow-string trusses. A total of 34 examples of these all-concrete designs were used on Aircraft Storage Units around the country.
Air Ministry Directorate of Works and Buildings drawings Nos. 3212-1313/36. Reinforced concrete walls and roof, asphalt covering.
2006
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 4 & 5
Central Heating Station.
2006
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 5
Central Heating Station.
Originally it would have been a coal fired heating but by the end of WW2 it would have been turned over to an oil fired system.
2006
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 4 & 5
The second type D hangar.
2006
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 4 & 5
The Science museum have added two new buildings One here and one on the cross runway, a very large building.
Inside the Science Museums D type hangar.
Science Museum
RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire Site 4 & 5
2000