Cruachan Dam, Ben Cruachan Hydro Electric Scheme is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 February 2011. Hydro electric dam. 4 related planning applications.

Cruachan Dam, Ben Cruachan Hydro Electric Scheme

WRENN ID: slow-rubble-curlew
Grade: B
Local Planning Authority: Argyll and Bute
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 11 February 2011
Type: Hydro electric dam
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

James Williamson and Partners; George Rennie (resident engineer for North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board technical panel) 1959-65. Large buttress dam with access roadway oversailing prominent arcaded buttresses; large central buttress containing pipeway inlets and control gates, dominating Cruachan corrie with a mountainous backdrop. Mass concrete, with some reinforced concrete to parapet. Battered downstream face with deep buttresses with rounded headed gaps between. Large buttress to centre. Small fixed spillway to far left (NW) with roadway oversailing on slender piers. Plain parapet to top integrated buttress heads.

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