Kinlochleven Village Water Supply Dam is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 1991. Dam.
Kinlochleven Village Water Supply Dam
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-gallery-hemlock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- Dam
- OS grid reference
- NN 195 601
- Coordinates
- 56.69842, -4.94796
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Kinlochleven Village Water Supply Dam, built around 1909, is a mass concrete gravity dam that measures 440 feet long and 55 feet high, although it was noted in 1911 that it was only half this height at that time. The dam features a 5:1 mass concrete structure with a 4:1 fine concrete face and has a pronounced batter to the north, where modern railings have been added in part. Just south of the dam, there is a 24-inch diameter cast-iron upstand tower, which includes the original railed platform and sluice mechanism. The project involved key figures such as P W Meik, who was the chief engineer, Alfred H Roberts as the resident engineer, Sir W Murray Morrison as the manager and technical advisor, and Sir John Jackson Ltd as the principal contractor.
Local climate
Kinlochleven Village Water Supply Dam 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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