Air raid shelter, Haugh Street, Falkirk

The building is a Second World War domestic air raid shelter, likely a prototype constructed in the early months of the conflict. It is situated at the northern end of the rear gardens of 68 and 70 Haugh Street in Bainsford, Falkirk.

This structure is made of brick and concrete, featuring gabled east and west ends with a pitched concrete roof. Each gabled end has a single entrance, and there are remnants of baffle walls that once protected the doors from blasts. Inside, the shelter is divided into two rooms by a central brick wall, one for each residential property, with a low crawlspace in the wall allowing access between the two rooms in case of an emergency.

Historically, six terraced houses, including those at 68 and 70 Haugh Street, are depicted on Ordnance Survey maps surveyed in 1938 and published around 1948, and these houses still exist today. The air raid shelter does not appear on the 1938 map but seems to have been built in a single phase within the first few years of the Second World War. Records indicate that Falkirk Council was constructing brick shelters by late 1940, and since this example may be a prototype design, it would likely have been among the earliest built.