Banff, Boyndie Airfield, Adminstrative Block, Site No. 2, Operations Block And Station Offices
Operations Block (20th Century)
Site Name Banff, Boyndie Airfield, Adminstrative Block, Site No. 2, Operations Block And Station Offices
Classification Operations Block (20th Century)
Canmore ID 267323
Site Number NJ66SW 21.02
NGR NJ 62365 63360
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/267323
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Boyndie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Banffshire
NJ66SW 21.02 62365 63360
The operations block for Boyndie Airfield is situated at the E side of the main entrance track leading from the A98 road at a point where it reaches a t-junction of other tracks. It is depicted on the current OS 1:2500 digital map.
The building is built mainly of brick with concrete reinforcing and is mainly single storey with a raised central section, boiler room chimney and water tank tower.
Though the building was not examined in detail due to its location within a ploughed field, it would appear to be of design type 228/43 (post January 1943), which was different from previous type of operations block in having a boiler house in a brick annexe and interrogation complex connected via an air-lock and corridor.. One entrance has a brick blast wall.
The block is visible on vertical air photographs taken in 1946 (106G/Scot/UK 108, frames 3055-3057, flown 23 May 1946) and these show that there were two large Nissen huts, which have now been removed on the W side of the block.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, NG), 27 February 2008
