Loch Chon Aqueduct No 3 (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works), Dow Of Chon is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 2008. Aqueduct.
Loch Chon Aqueduct No 3 (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works), Dow Of Chon
- WRENN ID
- outer-bracket-dale
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 December 2008
- Type
- Aqueduct
- OS grid reference
- NN 421 045
- Coordinates
- 56.20688, -4.54651
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Loch Chon Aqueduct No 3, formerly part of the Glasgow Corporation Water Works, was constructed between 1855 and 1859 by engineer John F Bateman, with contractors Robert Simpson, John Parkinson, and Joseph Mann from Halifax. The aqueduct is a low-lying structure featuring 13 bays and is approximately 16 yards long. It consists of a cast-iron trough that is supported by a masonry base and a short girder-section over a stream. At each end, there is a whinstone archway with a red sandstone coping and voussoirs. The central sluice mechanism is marked B3G. The aqueduct also has a cover and railings added in 2007.
Local climate
Loch Chon Aqueduct No 3 (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works), Dow Of Chon sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,730 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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