Hi NDRFT. Thanks to you found this.Building Construction 1925-1927
For the first time on operational RAF stations, two-storey barrack blocks, each with their own sanitary accommodation were introduced and five examples were initially built here (Type 'C') and a sixth (Type 'B') added in 1937. Other domestic buildings not seen before included married quarters, consisting of detached and semi-detached houses for officers and rows of terraced housing for airmen. Barrack blocks, dining room & cookhouse, institute, Sergeants's mess and station sick quarters, were arranged in a grid pattern built around a parade ground. Built away from the main domestic area and on the same side of the public highway as the technical buildings, the officers' mess and single officers' quarters and their married quarters were all built with landscaped gardens and lawns. The importance of this bomber station (being the closest to London and Oxford) was reflected in the style and size of the officers' mess, this elegant building designed on a grand scale is larger than that built on other contemporary operational RAF stations.
