Coastguard Station And Boathouse, Fishtown Of Usan is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 January 1997. Coastguard station.
Coastguard Station And Boathouse, Fishtown Of Usan
- WRENN ID
- lesser-copper-umber
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1997
- Type
- Coastguard station
- OS grid reference
- NO 723 545
- Coordinates
- 56.68203, -2.45222
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Coastguard Station and Boathouse in the Fishtown of Usan dates from around 1900. It is a gabled, rectangular-plan building designed as a Life-Saving Apparatus House. The structure is made of squared and snecked sandstone, featuring some shallow, bull-faced dressings. On the northeast gable, there is a depressed arch garage door with two-leaf boarded doors. The long elevations have segmental-headed windows that are timber small-pane bipartite. The building is topped with timber bargeboards and has a blue slate roof.
Local climate
Coastguard Station And Boathouse, Fishtown Of Usan receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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