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Ammunition Box Store and Workshop.
Single span building of brick construction with Belfast truss roof which has a longitudinal glazed roof monitor with ventilation louvres. The building is set back fifty feet from the railway track. Three slightly raised platforms, perhaps constructed of timber lead from the railway track to the building. These platforms may have had steel rails attached to facilitate the use of hand pushed trucks to move materials into the store. In this image, only the central doorway appears to have been in use. The wall on the opposite side of the building has six doorways that open out onto a low concrete platform. Above the platform is a curved roof. This roof is built out from the side wall of the store. Support for the opposite side of the roof is on metal stanchions. There is no evidence on this photograph, of a road or railway track on that side of the building connecting it to adjacent buildings?
The dimensions of the building are, 100ft x 40ft. The floor area is approximately 4000 square feet. Buildings two and four in the filled shell stores and dispatching sheds group may have had the term box store used to describe their function. '