Control Tower, Fearn Airfield is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 August 2000. Control tower. 2 related planning applications.
Control Tower, Fearn Airfield
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-finial-harvest
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 August 2000
- Type
- Control tower
- OS grid reference
- NH 847 761
- Coordinates
- 57.76026, -3.93788
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Control Tower at Fearn Airfield, built around 1940 and opened in 1941, is a three-storey structure featuring a rooftop air watch office, often referred to as a 'glasshouse'. This disused Second World War control tower follows a standard design used by Royal Naval Air Stations. It has a square plan, a flat roof, and a ventilation tower located at the rear. The building is constructed from brick and reinforced concrete and includes a wind sock post.
The west elevation, or front, has three main storeys divided by balconies on the first and second floors, which return and terminate at the north and south elevations. The ground floor has six window openings, while the second and third floors each feature a central window opening flanked by door openings, with additional window openings on the outer left and right sides.
The north elevation has a projecting single-storey entrance block at the ground level, with a pair of window openings to the right. The first and second floors each have pairs of window openings flanking the centre.
The south elevation mirrors the north with a projecting single-storey entrance block at the ground, small window openings above, and three irregularly arranged window openings on the first and second floors.
The east elevation features a pair of vent openings at the ground, flanked by pairs of irregularly arranged window openings. The first floor has four irregularly arranged window openings, while the second floor has three irregularly arranged window openings.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 2000.
Local climate
Control Tower, Fearn Airfield receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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