Monument record UGG 012 - Wangford Auxiliary unit operational base.

Wangford Auxiliary unit operational base.
The OB is situated in small woodland roughly in the middle between the villages of Wangford and Uggeshall, above marsh pastures. It sits in mature woodland and remains intact. The OB is an elephant shelter-type underground structure comprising a Nissen hut resting on a concrete plinth which seems to originally have been painted white. Both end walls were built from mainly breezeblocks with some red bricks. The entrance is at the south-east end with the exit facing it at the opposite end. There are two glazed ceramic pipe vents in the south-east wall and one in the north-west wall (near exit).It has a drop-down shaft entrance built from breezeblocks, the cover of which appears to have been a reinforced concrete slab (shattered): 0.76m x 1.40m, depth 2.40m, 9 (corroded) and there are steel rungs set across one corner. There is a shallow recess at the bottom of the south-facing wall (room for counterweights?). Broken concrete and breezeblocks lying near the wall recess (S2).