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
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 August 2000
- Type
- Control tower
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1940 (opened 1941). 3-storey with roof-top air watch office ('glasshouse'); square-plan, part-balconied, disused Second World War control tower of standard Royal Naval Air Station design, flat-roofed with ventilation tower at rear. Brick and reinforced concrete. Air watch office with window openings to angles and all elevations, including small annex addition to rear. Wind sock post.
W (FRONT) ELEVATION: 3 principal storeys divided by balconies at 1st and 2nd floors,
returned and terminated to N and S elevations. 6 window openings at ground; 2nd and 3rd floors with central window opening flanked by door openings, flanked in turn by window openings to outer left and right.
N ELEVATION: projecting single storey entrance block centred at ground; pair of window openings to right at ground; pairs of window openings flanking centre at 1st and 2nd floors.
S ELEVATION: projecting single storey entrance block centred at ground, with small window openings above, and flanking; 3 irregularly-arranged window openings at 1st and 2nd floors.
E ELEVATION: pair of vent openings centred at ground, flanked by pairs of irregularly-arranged window openings; 4 irregularly-arranged window openings at 1st floor; 3 irregularly-arranged window openings at 2nd floor.
INTERIOR: not seen, 2000.
Detailed Attributes
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