The station consisted of four large C Type hangars with permanent brick-built technical and domestic buildings. The remaining aerodrome buildings (for technical activities and accommodation) were built in a compact layout behind the hangars, in an arrangement replicated across all of the Expansion Period airfields: Technical Area, Station Offices, Officers' Mess, Sergeants' Mess, Airmen's' Quarters, Married Quarters, and Officers' Married Quarters. Roads were arranged either or perpendicular to Ermine Street "(A15)" with the Guardroom at 90-degrees to the main entrance and the Station Headquarters facing Ermine Street. This resulted in the base occupying an area of 360 acres.