Building 213, Watch Office, Technical Side, Raf Leuchars is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 February 2010. Watch office.

Building 213, Watch Office, Technical Side, Raf Leuchars

WRENN ID
pitched-bastion-mallow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 February 2010
Type
Watch office
OS grid reference
NO 457 206
Coordinates
56.37537, -2.8802
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Building 213, known as the Watch Office, is a two-storey Modernist structure built in 1939 as part of the Technical Side at RAF Leuchars. The building features a flat roof and is constructed with reinforced concrete and brick internal walls. The principal southern elevation of the upper storey is recessed to create a railed viewing platform, and it has curved glazed corners. The design includes continuous cill bands and an eaves band, with near-continuous glazing on the southern elevation. However, all the glazing has been replaced with non-traditional uPVC.

Inside, the building has been converted into offices, but the original room layout is believed to be largely intact. A concrete staircase with paired metal balusters and a timber handrail provides access between floors.

Local climate

Building 213, Watch Office, Technical 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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