Valve-House. Excluding Aqueduct To East And Pipes To West, Kinlochleven Hydroelectric Scheme And Former Aluminium Smelter is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2011. Industrial.
Valve-House. Excluding Aqueduct To East And Pipes To West, Kinlochleven Hydroelectric Scheme And Former Aluminium Smelter
- WRENN ID
- weathered-stair-ash
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2011
- Type
- Industrial
- OS grid reference
- NN 201 604
- Coordinates
- 56.7012, -4.93876
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Valve-House, part of the Kinlochleven Hydroelectric Scheme and former aluminium smelter, was designed by architect H Scott Alban and supervised by General Manager W M Morrison between 1905 and 1909. This single-storey building features a pitched roof and is constructed with granite rubble facings and a reinforced concrete frame. It has four bays and is a key component of a large high-head hydro-electric scheme that provided electricity to the nearby aluminium smelter, which was demolished in 2002.
The south elevation has bi-partite windows in the center, flanked by single rectangular windows in the outer bays, all set within raised banded margins. The gable ends are blank. Adjacent to the south and east elevations, there is a fixed spillway and a catchment pool. The roof is made of pitched corrugated aluminium and includes a single coped stack on the left (west) side with a clay can.
Local climate
Valve-House. Excluding Aqueduct To East And Pipes To West, Kinlochleven Hydroelectric Scheme And Former Aluminium Smelter sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 79 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 60 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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