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Latitude: 57.8026 / 57°48'9"N
Longitude: -4.0003 / 4°0'0"W
OS Eastings: 281222
OS Northings: 880982
OS Grid: NH812809
Mapcode National: GBR J8H3.8B7
Mapcode Global: WH4F1.J4BR
Plus Code: 9C9QRX3X+3V
Entry Name: Operations Block, Tain Airfield
Listing Name: Hunting Hill, Tain, Operations Block
Listing Date: 26 January 1998
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391686
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44945
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Tain Airfield, Operations Block
ID on this website: 200391686
Location: Tain
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Tain and Easter Ross
Parish: Tain
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1940. 2-storey wartime operations block, near rectangular-plan, 162' long, flat-roofed with ventilation tower. Harled brick and reinforced concrete. Outer sections slightly lower.S ELEVATION: symmetrically positioned entrance porches off-centre to left and right, 44'2" apart, each 6' 4" wide and 9' 6" deep, concrete slab roofs. Blank walls to centre and flanking. N ELEVATION: outer sections recessed; centre with further smaller
porch wet to left. Recess to left with 2 openings to outer left. Recess to right deeper, no openings. E ELEVATION: door to outer left. Ventilation tower to centre with louvred panels below coped head and flush walls to stack behind. W ELEVATION: opening to centre, shielded by screen walls.
The most significant surviving component of the 4 stations operating in Ross and Cromarty in the Second World War, the co-ordinating centre for Tain, Evanton and Fearn Airfields and the Alness Flying Boat Base. Some outbuildings such as the toilet block, have been demolished.
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