Tank, Falls Of Clyde

1925-27. Scheme designed by Sir Edward MacColl with advice from Amenity Committee consisting of the Earl of Home, Sir John Stirling of Maxwell of Pollok and Sir Robert Lorimer, architect; plans and specifications by Messrs Buchan & Partners, engineers; Sir William Arrol & Co. civil engineering contractors; the English Electric Co. hydro-electric plant. Striking strong classical group of 3 white-rendered clearly articulated adjoining blocks comprising: large 2-storey, 7-bay, roughly rectangular-plan, flat-roofed turbine room with round-arched windows to principal floor recessed between pilasters, and small square-headed windows to ground and attic floors; smaller 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, flat-roofed switch house block stepped forward at N end of E elevation of turbine room; pitched roofed attendant's house at right angles to turbine house block at S. Regular fenestration to turbine room.

Small-pane glazing to turbine room and switch house block; non-traditional aluminium windows to attendant's house. Reinforced concrete roofs to turbine room and switch house; grey slate roof to house.

INTERIOR: some original early 20th century features still in place including new generators which stand over the original turbines, each by the English Electric Co Ltd. 2 original Francis turbines generating 11,000 KW. Terracotta floor tiles. 1920s shell light shades over some of the dials. Original bank of switch gear preserved in situ on balcony over the new computerised system.

TANK AND PIPES: circular white-rendered concrete surge tank located above Bonnington Pavilion; 2 tall concrete surge shafts slightly down hill. 2 riveted, green steel pipes, 6' 6" in diameter connect the tank to power station.