Hoy, Lyness, Former First World War Paravane Shed / Second World War Royal Naval Recreation Centre is a Grade A listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 2002. Military shed, recreation centre.
Hoy, Lyness, Former First World War Paravane Shed / Second World War Royal Naval Recreation Centre
- WRENN ID
- scarred-wattle-meadow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2002
- Type
- Military shed, recreation centre
- OS grid reference
- ND 308 943
- Coordinates
- 58.83107, -3.19957
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former First World War paravane shed, built around 1917, is a large, nearly rectangular military structure made of corrugated iron. It was originally used as a paravane shed during the First World War and later repurposed as a Royal Navy recreation centre during the Second World War. The building is located on the north shore of Ore Bay.
It consists of two rectangular sections, featuring a long double segmental-arched roof that is aligned longitudinally to the northeast. The slightly wider section has a roof divided into five transverse segmental-arched sections to the southwest. The structure has a cast iron frame with red-painted corrugated iron cladding and mainly fixed timber frame multi-pane windows. The roof is also made of corrugated iron, with some evidence of timber panelling visible on the interior.
Inside, as observed in 2013, the space is divided into aisles by cast iron structural uprights and a timber Belfast roof truss arrangement.
Local climate
Hoy, Lyness, Former First World War Paravane Shed / Second World War Royal Naval Recreation Centre 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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