Blakehill had a total of 386 buildings on 14 sites, 8 of which were living sites, the others being the actual airfield, Technical Site, Communal Site, Mess Site, Sick Quarters Site, Radio Transmission Site and the Sewage Disposal Site.    Air Raid shelters and static water tanks were built around the site for fire fighting.

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The Living Sites

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The camp provided accommodation for 176 officers, with 3 to 6 per hut, 540 sergeants with 10 per hut, 1762 airmen, 18 per hut and 393 airwomen, 13 per hut.    The huts stood on concrete bases and were the 'Nissen' type with curved corrugated sheets forming the roof and walls and with windows and doors in the brick end walls.     The floors of the huts were covered in a thick brown lino and heating was provided by round coke burning tortoise stoves.   Separate buildings were provided for the latrines, ablutions and drying rooms, where wet clothes were aired.

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Ancillary Sites

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The mess site had separate cookhouses and dining halls for officers, sergeants and other ranks.    The sick quarters site was a medical centre with first aid facilities and beds for twenty two male and eight female in patients.    The Transmitter site near the top of common hill housed the radio transmitters used by operations staff to communicate with aircraft by morse code.    The local council later took over the sewage disposal site near Waterhay lane.

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Communal Site

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On the communal site, was a large NAFFI which was a recreation centre with restraunt and bar for ranks up to corporal.    It was staffed by civilian women who also drove the popular NAFFI tea vans which served refreshments to personnel working on remote parts of the station.

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Other buildings included the tailors, shoemakers and barbers shops, the barrack stores for clothing and domestic equipment, food stores and a coal compound.

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After the war, the site became the Chelworth industrial estate.

 

Technical Site

 

The technical site adjoined the airfield and consisted on buildings associated with flying and aircraft maintenance.   There were 2 T2 Steel Hangers, on on the eastern side near Whitehall Farm and the other near Chelworth Farm.

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Other buildings included the engineering workshops, Link Trainer, station headquarters, guardroom, armoury (a later version being installed near the entrance to the airfield during the cold war phase) flight offices, technical stores, motor transport facilities, crew rooms, post office, rec centre, parachute section and the Ops Block and briefing room.