Project Description
The Combined Mess at Richmondshire Lines is a Mess and accommodation facility for SNCO’s, Officers and Senior Officers. The combined Mess provides a hotel-like facility for the Officers to dine and relax in, with the accommodation on the two upper floors. The Mess to the rear of house is shared between the different Ranks of Officers while there are seperate areas to the front of house which provide formal and informal bars, games and dining rooms. The front of house areas are segregated by folding partitons allowing flexibility in the layout to accommodate a variety of functions.
The construction of the Mess used innovative methods; the ground floor is steel frame supporting an in-situ concrete slab at first floor level, with two floors of bedrooms above which were constructed off-site as volumetric modules. The Mess forms part of the master plan of Richmondshire Lines which involved the modular construction of over 1500 bed spaces. Aerial photograph credit – CPL Ian Forsyth RLC.
