NHER 49997 (Building record) - Possible World War Two barrack block at Rackheath County Primary School

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Summary

A concrete building located behind Rackheath Primary School, where it has been used as a classroom, is suggested as being a former barrack block belonging to the World War Two airfield (NHER 8170) located immediately to its east. The structure is not visible here on aerial photographs taken in 1946, and the school grounds do not appear to have been in military use at this time; rather, if the building did serve the airfield, it must have been moved to the school some time after 1946. The building is of concrete board construction between piers, with metal windows and a truss roof.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG21SE
Civil Parish RACKHEATH, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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Building, latterly used as extension to school, suggested as originally a barrack block from the adjacent airfield (NHER 8170). Concrete board construction between piers; metal windows; truss roof.
Proposed for demolition (school to be converted to house).
See (S1).
E. Rose (NLA), 2 April 2007.

February 2008. Norfolk NMP.
The building described above is not visible on aerial photographs of the area taken in 1946 (S2)-(S3), and there is no evidence that the site formed part of the adjacent World War Two airfield (NHER 8170). It has consequently not been mapped by the NMP, and is in any case depicted on modern Ordnance Survey maps. It is still possible, however, that this is a World War Two building re-located from elsewhere on the airfield in the post-war period.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 6 February 2008.

  • <S1> Photograph: Unknown. 2007. [unknown].
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1428 4075-6 16-APR-1946 (NMR).
  • <S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1636 3139-40 09-JUL-1946 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Oct 12 2018 11:49PM

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