Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Remote Incline Drumhouse
Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1996
- Locality
- Maenofferen Slate Quarry
- Community
- Ffestiniog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.00131, -3.91645
- Cadw reference
- 16896
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 approximately 150m NW of the slab mill on the main level of the quarry, on a bend and at the top of a long disused incline.
Exterior
Description: Remote counter-balance incline drumhouse; late C19 or early C20. Slate construction with thick supporting gable walls carrying the original twin drums and coiled cable. Shallow-pitched slate roof, partly collapsed; heavily buttressed SE gable. The brake mechanism survives externally to the L, in front of a slate revetment wall.
Listed as an exceptionally scarce survival of an intact counter-balance incline drumhouse.
In poor condition at time of inspection (June 1995).
References: D. Rh Gwyn and A. Davidson, 'Gwynedd Slate Quarries', Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, Report No. 152, (forthcoming).
Nearby in the register
- Former Weighbridge HutIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Powered Incline Drumhouse including chimneyIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Booster StationIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.