Joss Street air raid shelter is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2024. Air raid shelter.
Joss Street air raid shelter
- WRENN ID
- tangled-foundation-ash
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2024
- Type
- Air raid shelter
- OS grid reference
- NH 711 686
- Coordinates
- 57.6896, -4.16347
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Joss Street air raid shelter is a former communal surface air raid shelter with an adjoining plant room, built during the Second World War. It is situated at the eastern end of Joss Street in Invergordon.
This building is constructed from brick and concrete and features a flat, split-level roof. It measures approximately 14 meters in length and about 4 meters wide. There are entrances at both ends of the southern wall, leading into the western and eastern sections of the building. Internally, the western 9 meters of the structure serves as the air raid shelter, while the eastern section contains the plant room. The shelter follows a standard design for a double shelter, with a single dividing wall running lengthwise, where the bases of benches can still be observed. At the eastern end, there are two smaller rooms; one likely contained a chemical toilet, while the other was used for shelter equipment. The interior of the former plant room was inaccessible, so it is unclear what features may remain there.
Local climate
Joss Street air raid shelter 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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