Aa Sentry Box (No 631), Brachla is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 May 2003. Sentry box.
Aa Sentry Box (No 631), Brachla
- WRENN ID
- veiled-groin-finch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 May 2003
- Type
- Sentry box
- OS grid reference
- NH 561 328
- Coordinates
- 57.36357, -4.39347
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a sentry box located at Brachla, constructed between 1956 and 1967, with later refurbishments. It has a square plan and measures approximately 2 metres by 0.75 metres by 0.75 metres. The sentry box features a cross-gabled roof clad in zinc and includes a small central ventilator. It is set on a concrete base and has vertical black painted boarding on the side and rear elevations. Each side displays rectangular panels inscribed with "AA SERVICE," reflecting post-1967 re-branding. The door is plywood covered with a weathering fillet above. The front and side faces have bargeboarded gablets adorned with a square "AA" badge, also from the post-1967 re-branding.
Inside, the flooring is made of chipboard, and the walls are lined with plastic cladding over boarded timber. There is a disconnected single button telephone with a cupboard below it. A central bulkhead light fitting is positioned above a Perspex suspended ceiling.
Local climate
Aa Sentry Box (No 631), Brachla sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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 0.3°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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