The station was built on an 83-acre (340,000 m2) plot of land acquired as a result of tidal borings.

The turbine hall was a brick building with prefabricated stone used on window and door surrounds.

The administration and amenity block was built next to the station, and connected to the turbine hall by an overhead access bridge.

The block contained the station's control room, along with laboratories, administration offices, a canteen, lockers and showers.

Ince A Power Station was opened on 9 October 1957 by Lord Citrine, the chairman of the Central Electricity Authority.

[1] Each turbine was supplied with steam from an International Combustion Limited coal-fired boiler at a rate of 550,000 lb (250,000 kg) per hour, and at a temperature of 480 °C.

Its transmission system was inadequate to handle the large flow of electricity from the nuclear power stations to the north.

The station used a single hyperboloid induced draft cooling tower, which stood 116.7 m (383 ft) tall.

[12] The intensive use in the year ending 31 March 1985 was associated with the 1984/5 miners strike when the availability of coal for coal-fired power stations was severely limited.

The A Station was closed and demolished in the mid-1980s, though its single remaining cooling tower was left standing until 1999.

[13] The B Station ceased generating electricity in March 1997 and demolition of the structures commenced a couple of years later.