Sluice House, Clatto Reservoir, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1993.
Sluice House, Clatto Reservoir, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- bitter-stair-grove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1993
- OS grid reference
- NO 369 344
- Coordinates
- 56.49831, -3.02497
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Clatto Reservoir in Dundee was designed by engineers J & A Leslie in 1874. It is a near rectangular reservoir with gently sloping surfaces made of coursed whinstone rubble, situated on an earthen mound that features a central puddle. An ashlar-lined overflow channel with an original sluice gate runs from the center of the southern side.
The sluice house is located on an artificial mound at the head of the reservoir. This circular, single-storey structure is built of ashlar and features a block pedimented door, shuttered windows, and alternating ventilator slits. Although the interior has not been seen, it is likely to contain original valves and has a significant drop. The roof is conical and covered with slate, topped with a timber finial.
Near the sluice house, a square ashlar valve tower rises from the reservoir, complete with railings and what is likely the original mechanism. At the northwest of the site, there are cylindrical, dome-capped rock-faced rubble gatepiers, flanked by cast-iron barley-sugar railings. The gates are modern, and there are rubble-built coped boundary walls surrounding the site.
Local climate
Sluice House, Clatto Reservoir, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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