NICK COX ARCHITECTS

Nick Cox Architects was established in 2006 and is based in north Oxfordshire. The practice also has offices in London and Frome, Somerset. The practice specialises in the repair and conservation of historic buildings and the design of new buildings in historic contexts.

Projects - Scheduled Monuments

Blast Shelter Repairs, Former RAF Bicester

Client: Bicester Heritage

Building Period: 20th Century

Listed Status: Scheduled Monument

Funding: Historic England

Construction Value: £40,000

Former RAF Bicester is considered to be a prime example of a military airbase reflecting pre-1930’s military aviation and comprises one of the best preserved bomber airfield built as part of Sir Hugh Trenchard’s Expansion Scheme in the 1920s.

The airbase spent many years falling into a state of dilapidation until it was purchased by Bicester Heritage who have carefully repaired and restored the many buildings around the technical site to create a place for the restoration and enjoyment of classic cars.

Nick Cox Architects were appointed to develop a repair strategy to repair and conserve a number of scheduled monuments around the technical site, these included a couple of brick built fall-in blast shelters and a couple of brick and concrete built defended air-raid shelters in order to remove them from the Heritage at Risk Register held by Historic England.

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