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Latitude: 55.5134 / 55°30'48"N
Longitude: -4.3019 / 4°18'7"W
OS Eastings: 254741
OS Northings: 626814
OS Grid: NS547268
Mapcode National: GBR 3Q.TM53
Mapcode Global: WH3QS.WPM6
Plus Code: 9C7QGM7X+96
Entry Name: Turbine House And Sluice, Sorn Castle
Listing Name: Sorn Castle, Turbine House
Listing Date: 20 June 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391166
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44574
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391166
Location: Sorn
County: East Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Ballochmyle
Parish: Sorn
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Probably Henry E Clifford, circa 1910. Single storey and basement, square-plan turbine house on bank of river. Red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and corbelled eaves course. Segmental-arched opening to up-stream culvert at river/basement level. 2 windows to each elevation at upper level, some blocked. Water outlet downstream through banked terrace.
Timber 9-pane glazing. Swept eaves to pyramidal timber-shingle roof.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
Clifford was working on the estate in the pre-War years and it is likely on these grounds and stylistically that he was the architect. A small building is shown on, or near, the site on the 1895 OS map, but the site is cleared on that on 1908. Such water-powered turbine houses as this were springing up in the grounds of country houses thus irrigated to supply electricity in the years after 1880: a contemporary parallel can be found at Ardkinglas, Argyll. A pedestrian bridge lies close by.
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