Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Drying House
Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pen-yr-Orsedd, Caernarfon, Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, designated on 21 July 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 21 July 2000
- Locality
- Pen-yr-Orsedd
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanllyfni
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.06364, -4.22638
- Cadw reference
- 23674
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on Level VIII (Bonc Brig) of the Pen-yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry at the foot of the modern steep access road from Y Fron.
History
Drying house for quarrymens' clothes, built c1900. The quarry opened c1816 and in 1863 it was bought by W A Darbishire & Co. During the 1890s about 450 men worked here: it finally closed in 1997.
Exterior
Regularly coursed slate slabs; slate roof with tall integral red brick stack to foot of roof slope at right corner; metal boiler flue to ridge slightly to right of centre. Front has now doorless opening to left; right gable end has 6-paned sash window to centre with similar smaller sash window above to right.
Interior
Retains central stove.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved drying house, which is part of a group with other quarry structures directly adjacent on Level VIII of the Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry and important for the evidence it provides of its social organisation.
Nearby in the register
- Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Engine and Compressor HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry, Blondins and Associated StructuresEngine Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.