FORMER OFFICERS MESS, RAF BIGGIN HILL

FORMER OFFICERS MESS, RAF BIGGIN HILL, MAIN ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186840
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER OFFICERS MESS, RAF BIGGIN HILL
Statutory Address:: FORMER OFFICERS MESS, RAF BIGGIN HILL, MAIN ROAD

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186840
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER OFFICERS MESS, RAF BIGGIN HILL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER OFFICERS MESS, RAF BIGGIN HILL, MAIN ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER OFFICERS MESS, RAF BIGGIN HILL, MAIN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Bromley (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 40986 60614

Details

The following building shall be added:

WESTERHAM MAIN ROAD TQ 46 SW (west side) 785-/12/10003 former officers' mess, RAF Biggin Hill

II

Officers' mess, circa 1935, possibly designed by S Bullock FRIBA who designed several Air Ministry buildings, including a smaller but comparable mess dated 1934. Neo-Baroque style. Built of red brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roof with brick chimneystacks. Comprises a three-storey centre block with two-storey end blocks. Central block has projecting central three bays with sash windows, band below second floor and stone semi-circular entrance porch with Tuscan columns and stone balustrading. Flanking parts of 5 bays each with mainly glazing bar sashes and pedimented projection with oculus through ground and first floor attached to ground floor flat-roofed portion attached to projecting two-storey wings. Rear elevation has projecting three-storey, nine-bay central section with band below second floor, 12-pane sashes and central first floor round-headed staircase window over pilastered doorcase. Two storey 5 bay wings on either side. Large flat-roofed later C20 extension on right hand side. Interior has central well staircase with turned balusters, some round-headed alcoves, oak panelling and 6-panelled doors. One of the largest and most elaborate RAF officers' messes, and the building with most architectural merit at RAF Biggin Hill, the most famous of the Battle of Britain airfields.

Listing NGR: TQ4098660614

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 358671
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.