Hoy, Lyness, Former Gas Decontamination Station Building is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 2002. Gas decontamination station.
Hoy, Lyness, Former Gas Decontamination Station Building
- WRENN ID
- far-keep-torch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2002
- Type
- Gas decontamination station
- OS grid reference
- ND 303 947
- Coordinates
- 58.83417, -3.20836
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former gas decontamination station building at Hoy, Lyness, was constructed by the Directorate of Works around 1939. It is a rectangular-plan brick structure located in an open landscape on the western perimeter of the former Royal Naval base at Lyness. The west elevation features an advanced central section with two openings, flanked by wings on either side that each have a single opening set back. There is also a brick blast wall to the right. The north and south elevations display plain gable walls. The east elevation has openings on the right and left but no window openings. The building has a flat roof with a raised central section that was formerly a water tower, along with a brick stack. The roof level slightly lowers at the end bays. The interior was observed in 2013, revealing that most internal fixtures and fittings have been removed, although the original floor plan remains evident.
Local climate
Hoy, Lyness, Former Gas Decontamination Station Building 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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