Including Boundary Walls, Lussa Power Station, Lussa Hyrdo Electric Scheme is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 February 2011. Power station. 1 related planning application.

Including Boundary Walls, Lussa Power Station, Lussa Hyrdo Electric Scheme

WRENN ID
floating-oriel-gorse
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 February 2011
Type
Power station
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Ian G Lindsay (architect), 1956. Tall single storey with breaking wallhead dormers, 7-bay roughly rectangular-plan Scottish Renaissance power station with balustraded and coped rubble terrace to SE. Painted render with tabbed sandstone ashlar roll moulded surrounds and quoins; prominent stone cills. Base course and moulded corniced eaves course. Lancet arched sandstone ashlar dormer heads to pseudo-attic storey windows breaking wallhead to SE and NW elevations. Raised stone skews and shaped skewputts

NE ELEVATION: gable end. Single broad bay with slightly recessed lean-to section to right. Tripartite window to centre with carved decorative sandstone ashlar panel above and small decorative arrowslit window to gable apex. Narrow window to right.

SE ELEVATION: 7-bays with 5 large multi-paned windows with louvered ventilators to bottom. Lower doorways to outer bays, decorative sandstone panel to far right (N) above door. Large windows to ground floor in 5-bay centre with louvered vents to base. 5 corresponding breaking eaves dormers at pseudo-attic level.

SW ELEVATION: gable end. Broad single bay with slightly recessed lean-to section to left. Large round arched vehicular access door with metal roller shutter with window directly above in continuous sandstone surround, including decorative panel with North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board Coat of arms. Small window to left (NW).

NW ELEVATION: 7 bays, lean-to section at ground floor, smaller window to far right (SE). Louvered vents in 5 breaking eaves dormers.

Predominantly small pane metal glazing with top and bottom hopper openings in painted metal frames. Pitched roof; grey slates. Sandstone ashlar skew, some shouldered skewputts. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

INTERIOR: predominantly plain interior with large open plan turbine hall with offices and ancillary rooms to NW of plan. Gantry crane to rear with large concrete piers supporting steel rails. Large open roof with metal rafters and purlins and timber deck.

BOUNDARY WALLS: balustraded and coped coursed random rubble boundary walls to terrace. Coursed random rubble boundary wall with large rubble piers to power station compound.

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