Including Spillway Towers And Weir, Vaich Dam, Conon Valley Hydro Electric Scheme is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 February 2011. Dam.
Including Spillway Towers And Weir, Vaich Dam, Conon Valley Hydro Electric Scheme
- WRENN ID
- ancient-groin-russet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 February 2011
- Type
- Dam
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Williamson and Partners (engineers for North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board technical panel), 1957. Large turfed rubble dam with control tower to left (W) and 2 large spill towers near to upstream face. Mass rubble fill to downstream face with turf over; coursed random rubble to upstream face; concrete piers and walls to spill towers. Battered downstream face with concrete parapet to top. Additional concrete weirs and lined spillway channel adjacent to downstream face.
CONTROL TOWER: tall rectangular-plan control tower to centre of dam with deep single storey 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 S with single window above. Irregular fenestration elsewhere with small pane glazing in metal surrounds.
SPILL TOWERS: large circular spillway towers composed of concrete piers and lintels to open upper section, with later metal trash guards. Tapered concrete sidewalls below (often partially or wholly submerged).
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