Former Barracks Blocks, Domestic Side, Rraf Leuchars is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 February 2010. Barracks.

Former Barracks Blocks, Domestic Side, Rraf Leuchars

WRENN ID
frozen-chapel-acorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 February 2010
Type
Barracks
OS grid reference
NO 455 210
Coordinates
56.37827, -2.88367
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The former barracks blocks on the domestic side of RAF Leuchars were designed by Lieutenant JGN Clift of the Royal Engineers around 1918. This group consists of three gabled barracks blocks arranged in parallel. Each block is a single storey with an eight-bay rectangular plan, featuring a distinctive full-length raised central area on the roof that includes clerestorey windows. The exterior is made of rendered and painted brick, with bays separated by buttresses. There are lean-to porches on the north elevation, and the roofs are covered with corrugated metal. The ground floor and clerestorey windows have been replaced with non-traditional modern windows. The interior has been modernised.

Local climate

Former Barracks Blocks, Domestic Side, Rraf Leuchars receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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