Anti-Submarine Artillery Testing Tank, Strone Camp is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 October 2007. Testing tank.
Anti-Submarine Artillery Testing Tank, Strone Camp
- WRENN ID
- late-stronghold-bone
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 October 2007
- Type
- Testing tank
- OS grid reference
- NS 265 903
- Coordinates
- 56.07425, -4.78853
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Anti-Submarine Artillery Testing Tank at Strone Camp dates from around 1940. It is a large reinforced concrete testing tank attached to an adjacent three-storey building with 11 bays.
The tank measures 100 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 40 feet deep. It features a 13-bay north elevation that is slightly recessed and buttressed, with a large double buttress projecting from the west elevation. The tank has coping and railings along the parapet walkway. Control rooms and a launch mechanism, including a hoist, remain in place on the flat roof to the east of the tank.
Inside, there is a large viewing hall on the south elevation, which includes a glazed wall made of small pane glazing set between the buttresses and caged ladders. The ground level features numbered bays and rails.
Local climate
Anti-Submarine Artillery Testing Tank, Strone Camp sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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