Hoy, Lyness, Wee Fea, Underground Fuel Reservoir is a Grade A listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 November 2014. Fuel reservoir. 1 related planning application.
Hoy, Lyness, Wee Fea, Underground Fuel Reservoir
- WRENN ID
- tired-footing-evening
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 November 2014
- Type
- Fuel reservoir
- OS grid reference
- ND 291 946
- Coordinates
- 58.83333, -3.22951
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The underground fuel reservoir at Lyness, known as Wee Fea, was built between 1938 and 1943. It consists of an extensive network of six rectangular underground fuel storage tanks, along with operational and maintenance access tunnels and valve chambers that have been carved out of the hillside bedrock and are mainly lined with shuttered concrete. At the beginning of the operational piping tunnel, there is a small square-plan fan room, and at the end, the six underground fuel tanks are located. The tunnel measures approximately 350 metres in length and 3 metres in width. Within the tunnel, two pipes are laid beneath the concrete floor, with metal inspection covers allowing access, connecting each underground tank to the tank farm in Lyness. The tanks vary in size due to the geological conditions of Wee Fea, but they average about 9 metres in width, 237 metres in length, and 13.5 metres in height, with a total capacity of approximately 5.6 million gallons of fuel.
Local climate
Hoy, Lyness, Wee Fea, Underground Fuel Reservoir sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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