Gladhouse Reservoir

James and Alexander Leslie, 1879. Reservoir built to serve Edinburgh, Leith, Portobello and Dalkeith.

DAM, REVETMENTS, WEIR AND GANGWAY: squared and snecked pink sandstone; slightly battered retaining wall, stugged with semi circular coping. Platform to S of dam with ironwork whipple gangway leading to ashlar upstand shaft. Curved weir to E of dam crossed by plate girder bridge. Pier and slipway to W of dam. Sharply curved weir at foot of embankment to N.

MEASURING HOUSE: to N of dam, adjacent to weir at foot of embankment. Single storey, stugged with droved dressings; raised margins; strip quoins.

E Elevation: 3 bay; doorway to centre with simple pediment; boarded timber door; window to each flanking bay.

N Elevation: opening to centre with boarded timber shutter; louvred bull?s eye opening set in gablehead.

W Elevation: 3 bay; regular fenestration.

S Elevation: window to centre; louvred bull?s eye opening set in gablehead.

3 pane lying pane windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridge; coped stone skews; cast iron rainwater goods.

Interior: not seen 1998.

TWEEDALEBURN AQUEDUCT: emerges from tall semi circular arched opening to SW of reservoir; coursed bull faced pink sandstone with stugged rusticated archring with keystone; stugged bull faced coping. Coursed, steep sided channel enters reservoir on west side; aqueduct passes under flat segmental arched bull faced bridge with stugged rusticated coping and archring; inside parapet stugged; slightly splayed wing walls.

BRIDGE OVER CROSSLEE BURN: small round arched bridge; bull faced sandstone to outer walls, squared and snecked below parapet; stugged to inner walls; semi circular stugged coping; splayed wing walls.