Monument record ORF 147 - Magazine dating from 1916

Two bomb stores dated circa 1916 are visible as structures on aerial photographs on Orfordness, centred on circa TM43884881 and circa TM44014891. The bomb stores date for the period when Orfordness was the home of the Experimental Flying Section which carried out early experiments with bombs and their release gear. These structures were originally connected to the main research site on Orfordness by a light railway that crossed Stony Ditch on a narrow gauge bridge. (S1-4).

2007: Field survey of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment by Historic England (S5).
Structure D1: The Magazine is a rectangular single storey building constructed from standard concrete blocks (0.75m (2ft 6ins) x 0.24m (10ins)x 0.10m (4ins) laid to cavity wall construction. It is covered by a shallow pitch pyramidal timber framed roof, weather boarded with felt over with a central ventilation lantern. The Magazine is entered from the north through double wooden outward opening doors each leaf is covered by a steel sheet. To either side the entrance is flanked by window openings and small metal vents, and to its west a REVO electrical fuse box. The doors and windows appear to date from the 1950s or 1960s. Externally there are a number of bronze fastenings, which were used to fix copper lightning straps. In the rear, south, wall is a single metal 1930s style vent. To the side of the doors is another cast iron vent. Internally is a central walkway with later raised concrete storage platforms to either side, it was latterly lit by enclosed magazine type lighting.

Formerly recorded as ORF 070.