Tongland Dam, Galloway Hydroelectric Power Scheme is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 February 2011. Dam. 3 related planning applications.
Tongland Dam, Galloway Hydroelectric Power Scheme
- WRENN ID
- sombre-porch-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 February 2011
- Type
- Dam
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Williamson with Sir Alexander Gibb consulting engineers; Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers; John Howard and Co. construction engineers; 1934; later additions including screens. Curved-section dam of multiple radius; both arched and gravity sections. Concrete panels with concrete copes above cornice. Single control tower to left (W) on corbel brackets in downstream face (S) with round arched opening and single round arched window above. Large free roller gates to right (E) of centre with chamfered square-plan control tower above. Curved section buttresses between gates. Fish-ladder composed of sequential concrete pools. Fixed spillway to far right in gravity section with concrete wave walls to either side and shoulder-arched walkway above.
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