Ballewan Byewash 1 (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works) is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 2008. Water works.
Ballewan Byewash 1 (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works)
- WRENN ID
- mired-chapel-yarrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2008
- Type
- Water works
- OS grid reference
- NS 547 809
- Coordinates
- 55.99961, -4.33077
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ballewan Byewash 1, formerly part of the Glasgow Corporation Water Works, was designed by John F Bateman in 1856. This roughly rectangular masonry structure is symmetrically arranged on a sloping site, featuring walls that step up the hillside. At the eastern end, there is a bowed projection, and to the west, there are masonry retaining walls that lead to the outflow channel. The outer face is made of bull-faced snecked red sandstone, while the inner face is polished ashlar, topped with rounded copes.
Inside, there is a central cast-iron trough that carries a conduit between arched openings, which are accented by prominent voussoirs. Shallow steps are located on each side of the trough, and entrance gates are positioned over the arches. The masonry structure is designed to direct the burn to flow underneath the conduit at right angles.
Local climate
Ballewan Byewash 1 (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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