Nuclear Bunker, Tertowie House, Kinellar is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 September 1984. Nuclear bunker.
Nuclear Bunker, Tertowie House, Kinellar
- WRENN ID
- swift-gallery-starling
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 September 1984
- Type
- Nuclear bunker
- OS grid reference
- NJ 821 101
- Coordinates
- 57.18203, -2.29685
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Nuclear Bunker at Tertowie House in Kinellar was built in 1962 and is situated underground beneath the gymnasium. It is accessed through a steel blast door and a 40-foot concrete corridor that runs adjacent to the gymnasium. The structure features a low flat roof and is constructed from flat-coped pink and grey squared granite rubble, with a recessed blast door located to the south.
Inside, six steps at the end of the corridor lead down to a decontamination area. There are two additional blast doors that open into the main corridor and various rooms, which include two generator rooms (one equipped with a small Lister generator), a ventilation plant, a Scientific Adviser's Room, an Operations Room, and a dormitory that previously accommodated 18 triple bunks. The dormitory also has a small blast door that leads to an escape hatch, along with a communications system.
Local climate
Nuclear Bunker, Tertowie House, Kinellar receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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