Leuchars Airfield, Control Tower (Old), Technical Site
Control Tower (20th Century)
Site Name Leuchars Airfield, Control Tower (Old), Technical Site
Classification Control Tower (20th Century)
Canmore ID 271529
Site Number NO42SE 59.27
NGR NO 45734 20692
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/271529
- Council Fife
- Parish Leuchars
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
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
