Prince's Dock 'Four Winds' Hydraulic Power Station, Mavisbank Road, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Former power station.

Prince's Dock 'Four Winds' Hydraulic Power Station, Mavisbank Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
moated-copper-hyssop
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Former power station
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Burnet, Son and Campbell, dated 1894. Mixed Italian and Romanesque brick with red ashlar details. Single-storey 7-bay pump-house with Romanesque blind arcade over windows. Parapet raised at S corner with blocked oculi.

2-storey elevation to W with arched ground floor. 6 1st floor windows and corbelled cornice. Arch at S behind small flat-roofed section. 2 large arched doors to N, the smaller under a balustrade, the larger in gable end of tall pumproom. Slate roof and long ridge ventilator.

Fine square heavily machicolated accumulator tower with pilaster strips and tall round-headed windows. Arched door to W under C. N. T. shield. Curved wall with balustrade.

Octagonal chimney, originally 172'6" cut down to 55' in 1927, with stone course and sculpted panels of the Four Winds. Curved front wall inscribed "Clyde Navigation Trust".

Interior of lower section divided by original arched brick wall. Cast-iron columns and steel beams. Small platform and large vertical cast-iron pipes near W wall.

Accumulator tower retains its original hydraulic equipment in 2 tall rivetted cylinders.

Windows have original glazing patterns.

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