Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sett Makers Huts at New Bank
Penmaenmawr, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 3 November 1995
- Locality
- Penmaenmawr Quarry
- Community
- Penmaenmawr
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26064, -3.92514
- Cadw reference
- 16523
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Located on a slope above Penmaenmawr overlooking the sea and the quarry works below; on the New Bank of the former Graigclwyd quarry, now disused.
History
Quarry at Penmaenmawr began on a formalised basis in the 1830s when the Graigclwyd quarry was found by Messrs Brassey and Tomkinson, though unofficial workings were established long before this date. The local granite, technically a quartz enstatite diabase, became prized for its quality and throughout the C19 and earlier C20 was used for the production of sett paving which was done on site. The quarried stone was also in demand for roadstone and railway ballets,, for which it continues to be used at present. Goverment-issued mineral statistics for the year 1858 show that the two quarries then in operation, Penmean and Graigclwyd, wer producing a combined total of 134,080 tons of setts and granite. The quarring industry at Penmaenmawr attracted a sizling labour force and led directly to the establishment of the town in the second half of the C19, many of the worker's terraces of which were built by successive quarry owners like C.H Darbishire in the last decades if the century.
Reason for designation
Listed as an exceptionally scarce survival of an intact counterbalance incline drumhouse with associated sett makers' huts.
Nearby in the register
- Incline Drumhouse at New BankIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Graiglwyd FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Primary Barn at Graiglwyd FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hut Circles at Clip yr OrseddHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.