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MHG51463 - Radar Station Set House, Hill of Ulbster

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Second World War set house or generator house. Associated with the Hill of Ulbster Chain Home Low Radar Station. One of 17 buildings in the group.

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This building appears to be a brick-built generator house (YARROWS04 713) with a concrete floor and roof. It measures 8.4m from NNE to SSW by 6.5m transversely overall and 4.8m in height. There is a wide entrance on the WNW and a window on the ESE. The interior contains two concrete plinths that probably carried diesel engines. Channels in the floor leading S from the plinths probably carried cables out of the building, and there are apertures high up on the N wall that were probably vents. The fuel tank stood on a high concrete plinth against the outer face of the N wall and was protected by a high anti-blast wall, which springs from the NE corner of the generator house to cover both the tank and the doorway into the building.
A second building (714) lies immediately E of the generator house and measures 6.4m from WNW to ENE by 4.9m transversely overall. Now reduced to a concrete floor within a brick dwarf wall 0.55m high, it was probably originally carried up in timber. In the interior there are six narrow concrete plinths arranged in a double row. Each measures 0.75m in height and has a pair of steel bolts set into its upper surface. Set some 6.5m NW of the generator house there is also a concrete pad (YARROWS04 715) with four steel bolts set into its upper surface.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF) 7 September 2004.

Site visit 07/11/2008. As described above - no change <1>. Photographs were taken <2>.

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Grid reference	Centred ND 33232 42201 (14m by 19m) (3 map features)
Map sheet	ND34SW
Civil Parish	WICK
Geographical Area	CAITHNESS

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