Operations Block, Tain Airfield is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1998. Wartime operations block.
Operations Block, Tain Airfield
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-quartz-plum
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1998
- Type
- Wartime operations block
- OS grid reference
- NH 812 809
- Coordinates
- 57.80263, -4.00027
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Operations Block at Tain Airfield is a 2-storey building constructed around 1940. It has a near rectangular plan, measuring 162 feet long, and features a flat roof with a ventilation tower. The structure is made of harled brick and reinforced concrete, with the outer sections being slightly lower than the central part.
On the south elevation, there are symmetrically positioned entrance porches that are off-centre to the left and right, spaced 44 feet 2 inches apart. Each porch measures 6 feet 4 inches wide and 9 feet 6 inches deep, topped with concrete slab roofs. The central area and the flanking sections have blank walls.
The north elevation shows that the outer sections are recessed, with the centre featuring a smaller porch to the left. There is a recess to the left that has two openings, while the deeper recess to the right has no openings. The east elevation includes a door on the outer left side, and the ventilation tower is centrally located, showcasing louvred panels beneath a coped head and flush walls behind the stack. The west elevation has an opening at the centre, which is shielded by screen walls.
Local climate
Operations Block, Tain Airfield receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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