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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 647334
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/647334
NO42SE 59.27 45734 20692
A reinforced concrete control tower with brick cavity walls is situated immediately S of the central (of four) Type 'C' aircraft hangars. Built immediately before the outbreak of World War II to War Office design drawing number 5845/39 the building incorporated a Meteorological Section.
The front elevation has curved returns and double glazed metal-framed windows. A balcony at first floor level also with curved returns. The whole building was designed to withstand battle damage, re-inforced concrete roof beams and concrete floors.
Though the tower at Leuchars has been internally altered, enough survives of the original design to show a typical layout of a late 1930s style control tower.
All new airfields constructed in the late 1930s were provided with 'met offices'.
Information from RCAHMS, (DE), March 2005; P Francis 1996
