Engine And Aircraft Repair Shop is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 August 2006. Hangar.

Engine And Aircraft Repair Shop

WRENN ID
second-gateway-sienna
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 August 2006
Type
Hangar
OS grid reference
NO 625 093
Coordinates
56.27493, -2.60705
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Engine and Aircraft Repair Shop, built between 1939 and 1940, is a very large Northlight hangar constructed from brick and featuring a distinctive corrugated iron sawtooth roof with five bays. It has a collection of low lean-to extensions on the north and south elevations. The west elevation includes large sliding metal doors that operate on projecting sliding gear. There is also a variety of multi-pane metal windows and timber boarded doors throughout the building.

Local climate

Engine And Aircraft Repair Shop receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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