How to Build Nissan Hut


Capel Battery had 20 Nissan Huts build mainly used as accommodation for over 150 personnal on site from 1942 to 1945.

All 20 huts had size 36 ft in length by 16 ft in width which were sunk 5 feet below ground level to protect them for sea and aerial attack.

In 2023 we re-build Nissan Hut 20 which is used as Muesum.

A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use, especially as barracks, made from a 210c portion of a cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. It was designed during the First World War by the Canadian-American-British engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen

Below are the photos of the re-build. Each hut made from sheet of metal attached to metal frame with wooden purlins. The frame are bolted to the foundations.

Nissan Hut Diagram Capel Battery Original Nissan Hut Diagram for Capel Battery 1941.
Picture Original Base for Nissan Hut - The bases was never destoyed - In perfect condition.
First we made good the footings .
Nissan Hut 20 - Capel Battery Start with the bolting the inter frames.
Picture Start with the frame bolted to footings.
Picture Add the roofing sheets.
Picture 3 Sheets to cover the hut each section of the roof.
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Picture Inner roofing sheet fitted.
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Roof inner sheeting finished. Add the insulation and fit the outer sheets
Picture Inside.
Picture Inside.
Picture Inside. We found on eBay an original wood burner which fitted perfectly on the orginal raised platform.
Look to the rear of the Hut which we put exit door.
Picture Fit the sheeting for the front entrance door
Picture Add the window the entrance roof
Picture Finished
Picture Photo as use for accommodation
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Nissan Hut as accommodation. See the burner in the middle. We found original one to put in the same place which fit exactly Nissan hut< 20.