diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f28655de68..c0dd6b38d6 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -113,9 +113,10 @@ option(DISABLE_TTF "Disable support for TTF provided by freetype2.")
 option(ENABLE_SCRIPTING "Enable script / plugin support." ON)
 option(ENABLE_ASAN "Enable the AddressSanitizer.")
 option(ENABLE_UBSAN "Enable the UndefinedBehaviourSanitizer.")
-
+option(ENABLE_HEADERS_CHECK "Check if include directives in header files are correct. Only works with clang" ON)
 option(DISABLE_GUI "Don't build GUI. (Headless only.)")
 
+
 if (FORCE32)
     set(TARGET_M "-m32")
     set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} ${TARGET_M}")
diff --git a/src/openrct2-ui/CMakeLists.txt b/src/openrct2-ui/CMakeLists.txt
index 64c2378bfb..b321a5dedb 100644
--- a/src/openrct2-ui/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/openrct2-ui/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ endif ()
 # Only valid for Clang for now:
 # - GCC 8 does not support -Wno-pragma-once-outside-header
 # - Other compilers status unknown
-if ("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang")
+if (ENABLE_HEADERS_CHECK AND "${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang")
     set(OPENRCT2_HEADERS_CHECK ${OPENRCT2_UI_HEADERS})
     # OpenGLAPIProc.h is not meant to be included directly.
     list(REMOVE_ITEM OPENRCT2_HEADERS_CHECK "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/drawing/engines/opengl/OpenGLAPIProc.h")
diff --git a/src/openrct2/CMakeLists.txt b/src/openrct2/CMakeLists.txt
index 6ad152ac03..81afc79674 100644
--- a/src/openrct2/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/openrct2/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ endif()
 # Only valid for Clang for now:
 # - GCC 8 does not support -Wno-pragma-once-outside-header
 # - Other compilers status unknown
-if ("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang")
+if (ENABLE_HEADERS_CHECK AND "${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang")
     add_library(${PROJECT_NAME}-headers-check OBJECT ${OPENRCT2_CORE_HEADERS})
     set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME}-headers-check PROPERTIES LINKER_LANGUAGE CXX)
     set_source_files_properties(${OPENRCT2_CORE_HEADERS} PROPERTIES LANGUAGE CXX)