Kendoon North Dam, Galloway Hydroelectric Power Scheme

Kendoon North Dam, part of the Galloway Hydroelectric Power Scheme, was designed by James Williamson with consulting engineers Sir Alexander Gibb and Merz and McLellan in 1936. It features a long, shallow V-section concrete arch and gravity dam, with a single control tower located to the north. An elevated roadway runs along the crest of the dam, supported by piers over a fixed spillway to the south, which includes a stepped eaves course to the left. The roadway has a concrete parapet, and some larger piers act as buttresses on the downstream eastern face. The control tower spans a walkway to the south and has chamfered upper corners, with a tall narrow round-headed opening at the base and a single rounded-headed window above. The doorway has a metal covering added in 2009. Beneath the dam, at its eastern base, there is a small valve-house made of reinforced concrete.