North Of A92, Former Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post, Elliot is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 December 2011. Bunker.
North Of A92, Former Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post, Elliot
- WRENN ID
- pale-hearth-moss
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 December 2011
- Type
- Bunker
- OS grid reference
- NO 621 398
- Coordinates
- 56.5491, -2.61797
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post, located north of the A92 in Elliot, was built in 1958. This underground rectangular bunker features two internal chambers and is accessed via a metal ladder in a narrow entrance shaft, with ventilation and detecting structures situated above ground. The structure is made of reinforced concrete.
Above ground, there is a low, square-plan green painted concrete entrance hatch set on a concrete plinth with a base course and a bevelled top edge. A concrete step leads to the east. There is also a square-plan ventilation shaft with louvred openings to the north. The top opening metal entrance door leads to the vertical shaft containing the wall-mounted metal ladder that provides access to the bunker.
To the west, there is a low, capped louvred ventilation shaft, along with a cylindrical survey meter probe cover and bomb power indicator baffle plates.
Inside, the bunker consists of a large rectangular monitoring room and a smaller rectangular ancillary room, which includes a toilet. A timber door with a moulded surround and a vent at the bottom leads into the large monitoring room, which features rubber flooring and small metal piles that connect to external recording meters. There is some timber moulding around a notice board and a wall-mounted timber desk, as well as some surviving wall-mounted communication equipment. An iron grill is located on the floor below the ladder.
Local climate
North Of A92, Former Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post, Elliot sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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