Underground Fuel Reservoir, Inchindown is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 November 2014. Fuel storage reservoir.
Underground Fuel Reservoir, Inchindown
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-lantern-auburn
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 November 2014
- Type
- Fuel storage reservoir
- OS grid reference
- NH 688 744
- Coordinates
- 57.74086, -4.20494
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Underground Fuel Reservoir at Inchindown, built between 1938 and 1943, consists of an extensive network of six rectangular underground fuel storage tanks. These tanks are accessed through operational and maintenance tunnels, as well as valve chambers that have been carved out of the hillside bedrock and are predominantly lined with shuttered concrete. At the beginning of the operational piping tunnel, there is a small square-plan fan room, and at the end, the six underground fuel tanks are located. The tunnel measures approximately 350 metres long and 3 metres wide. Inside the tunnel, two pipes are laid beneath the concrete floor, which can be accessed through metal inspection covers, connecting each underground reservoir to the tank farm in Invergordon. The reservoir tanks vary in size due to the local geology, but they generally measure 9 metres wide, 237 metres long, and 13.5 metres high, with a total capacity of about 5.6 million gallons of fuel.
Local climate
Underground Fuel Reservoir, Inchindown sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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