Valve Gatehouse, Loch Sloy Dam, Sloy Awe Hydro Electric Scheme is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Dam.
Valve Gatehouse, Loch Sloy Dam, Sloy Awe Hydro Electric Scheme
- WRENN ID
- keen-render-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1996
- Type
- Dam
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Williamson (engineer for North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board technical panel), Balfour Beatty and Co. (main contractors), designed 1936, built 1946 onwards. Large buttress dam with access roadway oversailing prominent arcaded buttresses with fixed spillway to centre integrated with buttress and control tower, dominating upper reaches of Inveruglas water. Shuttered concrete, with some reinforced concrete to parapet and gatehouse control tower. Battered downstream face with deep buttresses with rounded headed gaps between. Large buttress to centre forming fixed spillway with central rib integrated with dispersal valve to base and control tower to parapet. Parapet to top with small buttressed piers springing from centre of main buttresses.
TUNNEL INTAKE AND DISPERSAL VALVE GATEHOUSE: set directly adjacent to upstream face of dam on large concrete pier incorporating intakes for tunnel and dispersal valve beneath waterline. Large panelled teak vehicular access doors to SE elevation with paired narrow rectangular windows to SW and NE elevations.
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