Glen Finglas Dam And Hydro-Electric Power Station (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works) is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 2008. Dam, hydro-electric power station.
Glen Finglas Dam And Hydro-Electric Power Station (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works)
- WRENN ID
- seventh-chapel-laurel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2008
- Type
- Dam, hydro-electric power station
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority
Babtie, Shaw and Morton (consulting engineers), 1963-5. Gently curved concrete gravity dam incorporating small hydro-electric power (HEP) station at base. 115 feet high and 720ft long, steeply-battered S (land) side curving to vertical at top. Flat-roofed dam-top valve house with strip windows to E of centre. Dam-top walkway with parapet and railings to W of valve house. Over-flow spillway to E of valve house with steep curved steps fanning out at base to far right with rubble wall. Small, rubble-clad HEP generating house below valve house with large picture window to S, 2-leaf timber-boarded door to W, cantilevered balcony and very shallow pitched roof. Arched tunnel entrance to dam to W of HEP station. Low concrete weir to outlet basin below dam; circular-plan viewing platform with concrete steps to W of weir. Commemorative plaque near W end of dam.
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