1932 Valve House is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 2008. Valve house, ventilation shaft, boundary wall.
1932 Valve House
- WRENN ID
- knotted-brass-vale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2008
- Type
- Valve house, ventilation shaft, boundary wall
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John F Bateman, circa 1856; James M Gale, 1890; 1930-32. Rectangular walled enclosure containing 1856 Valve House, 1932 Valve House, and circa 1890 'birdcage' ventilation shaft to junction chamber. Security covers to openings and vents added 2007.
1856 VALVE HOUSE: 1-bay, rectangular-plan, flat-roofed Italianate valve house with deep consoled eaves on battered podium set into sloping ground. Coursed, bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course. Prominent long and short quoins and window margins. Bipartite window to front; door to rear (2007 replacement); single windows to sides. Ornamental glazing pattern in fixed iron windows.
INTERIOR: 19th century cast-iron operating mechanism.
1932 VALVE HOUSE: 1-bay, rectangular-plan, flat-roofed crenellated valve house. Coursed, bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course. Narrow ashlar window margins. 2007 metal door with 1932 date lintel to N; windows to other elevations. Stone steps to rear of podium. Diamond pane glazing in fixed iron windows. Stone steps, retaining wall and railings to subterranean 1890 chamber. INTERIOR: cast-iron operating mechanism to upper and lower chambers.
VENTILATION SHAFT: 1890. Circular snecked, bull-faced sandstone enclosure with access gate and domed wrought-iron 'birdcage' top. Projecting cope.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES: battered random rubble boundary wall with rounded cope and 2 iron gates to S. Stone steps to pedestrian gate.
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