River Tarff Intake, Foyers Hydroelectric Power Scheme And Former Aluminium Smelter is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 February 2011. Hydroelectric power scheme.
River Tarff Intake, Foyers Hydroelectric Power Scheme And Former Aluminium Smelter
- WRENN ID
- over-hearth-woodpecker
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 February 2011
- Type
- Hydroelectric power scheme
- OS grid reference
- NH 499 199
- Coordinates
- 57.24546, -4.48892
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The River Tarff Intake is part of the Foyers Hydroelectric Power Scheme and the former Aluminium Smelter, likely designed by Cameron Burnett for the British Aluminium Company between 1895 and 1896, with later alterations. This D-plan water intake is situated on the banks of the River Tarff. It features a wall made of coursed random rubble with a deep rectangular section, which steps inward at the curved section that supports the upper part. In the later 20th century, modifications were made to install metal screens over the outlet to the aqueduct and iron railings along the top.
Local climate
River Tarff Intake, Foyers Hydroelectric Power Scheme And Former Aluminium Smelter sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 78 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 61 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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