Aa Sentry Box (No 714), Threapland Wood is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 2003. Sentry box.

Aa Sentry Box (No 714), Threapland Wood

WRENN ID
seventh-steeple-alder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 2003
Type
Sentry box
OS grid reference
NJ 290 610
Coordinates
57.6342, -3.19016
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Aa Sentry Box (No 714) at Threapland Wood is a square-plan timber boarded structure built between 1956 and 1967, with later refurbishments. It measures approximately 2 metres by 0.75 metres by 0.75 metres and features a cross-gabled zinc clad roof with a central ventilator, sitting on a concrete base. The side and rear elevations are covered in vertical black painted boarding, and there is a rectangular panel inscribed "BOX 714" on the sides. The entrance has a flush plywood panel door adorned with a moulded yellow winged interlaced "AA" livery, which is part of a 1990s re-branding, and a weathering fillet above. Each corner of the box has yellow painted strips, and the gablets are bargeboarded, also displaying the "AA" livery from the 1990s. Backlit square name panels reading "THREAPLAND" are located on the left, and "BOX" is displayed on the front and side faces. Inside, there is chipboard flooring, a timber cupboard at the rear, and a disconnected 1-button telephone from 2002 on the right.

Local climate

Aa Sentry Box (No 714), Threapland Wood 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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