Officers' Mess, Domestic Side, Raf Leuchars is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 February 2010.

Officers' Mess, Domestic Side, Raf Leuchars

WRENN ID
young-grate-brook
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 February 2010
OS grid reference
NO 453 209
Coordinates
56.37733, -2.88588
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Officers' Mess on the Domestic Side at RAF Leuchars is a large building complex dating from 1939. It consists of linked dining, recreation, and accommodation wings arranged around a largely U-shaped courtyard, with later alterations and additions, particularly to the central courtyard wing. The design is in the Georgian Revival style, featuring cream harl with moulded architraves on some entrance doors, a base course, and projecting cills. The building includes some traditional 12-pane timber sash and case windows, although most have non-traditional glazing, and there are some ridge stacks topped with grey slate roofs.

The central courtyard wing is a single-storey structure with 15 bays, featuring gabled advanced end bays and a central three-bay gabled entrance porch. This porch has a tripartite round-arched entrance with a datestone from 1939 above it, along with recessed glazed entrance doors and round-arched fanlights. The long flanking wings are two-storey, each with five piended slated dormers and some gabled bays.

Inside the central courtyard wing, as seen in 2007, there is a large reception room that features simple cornicing and a moulded stone chimneypiece with a straightforward timber mantelpiece.

Local climate

Officers' Mess, Domestic Side, Raf 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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