Loch Glascarnoch Dam, Conon Valley Hydro Electric Scheme is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 February 2011. Hydro electric dam.
Loch Glascarnoch Dam, Conon Valley Hydro Electric Scheme
- WRENN ID
- night-flue-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 February 2011
- Type
- Hydro electric dam
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Williamson and Partners (engineers for the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board technical panel), 1957. Prominent large curved dam flanked by turfed earth fill wings; central control tower and central fixed spillway with vehicular access road oversailing. Concrete mass gravity construction with rammed earth wings. Battered downstream face with concrete upstand walls to spillway. Tapered concrete piers, with single larger rectangular pier to centre above dispersal valve, support roadway with plain parapet above fixed spillway.
CONTROL TOWER: tall rectangular-plan control tower to centre of dam with 2-storey and attic section visible above dam wall, housing control gate for dam dispersal valve. Reinforced concrete with band courses and banded eaves course. Large vehicular access doorway to SE with single attic storey window above. Irregular fenestration elsewhere with small pane metal glazing in metal surrounds.
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