Bridge, Glenlee Power Station

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 23/04/1990 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Kells NGR NX 60601 80555 Coordinates 260601, 580555 — Sir Alexander Gibb consulting engineer, Merz and McLellan Electrical engineers; E M Carmichael, Office of Public Works; dated 1934. 3-storey, roughly 4-bay, rectangular-plan power station in Classical Modern style with prominent gridded arrangement of small-pane windows. Painted reinforced concrete. Recessed eaves course with further recessed parapet above. Lugged doorway surround inscribed above with GLENLEE POWER STATION 1934. Gridded pattern of small-pane windows in recessed surrounds (tripartite to centre bays and single bay return and bipartite to flanking bays). Regular fenestration of small-pane rectangular windows at lower block to rear (W). Large doorway off centre to rear with timber panelled roller door. INTERIOR: plain interior composed predominantly of single open space with large roller crane on steel gantry. Some offices to left (SE), including later alterations to form control room for the Galloway Scheme. BRIDGE: reinforced concrete twin arched bridge over tailrace with plain concrete parapet. — Glenlee power station is a significant example of a hydroelectric power station and was an important part of phase I of the highly influential Galloway Hydropower Scheme. The station utilises water from a separate catchment to the rest of the scheme, created by Clatteringshaws Dam (see separate listing), before feeding it back into Loch Ken and on to Tongland (see separate listing). The Galloway scheme was a significant technological achievement and the first example of run of the river technology to be successfully utilised on a large scale in Scotland. The architectural design of Glenlee is

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.