Lyness, Scapa Flow Visitor Centre And Museum, Second World War Air Raid Shelter is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 November 2014. Air raid shelter. 4 related planning applications.

Lyness, Scapa Flow Visitor Centre And Museum, Second World War Air Raid Shelter

WRENN ID
grim-iron-sedge
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 November 2014
Type
Air raid shelter
OS grid reference
ND 310 948
Coordinates
58.83573, -3.1958
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Lyness Air Raid Shelter, built around 1939, is located in the open landscape of the former Royal Naval base at Lyness. This U-shaped structure features an earthwork covering and is constructed from pre-cast sectional shuttered concrete, with some areas of corrugated metal sheeting and an earth roof. Brick and concrete retaining walls lead to the entrance and exit.

During an interior inspection in 2013, it was noted that there are two entrances leading into a small central rectangular chamber, with painted directional arrows on the walls.

Local climate

Lyness, Scapa Flow Visitor Centre And Museum, Second World War Air Raid Shelter 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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