Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Weighbridge House
Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, Wales
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
- 53.06249, -4.22306
- Cadw reference
- 23725
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 directly adjacent to the locomotive shed immediately to the north of the incline and drumhouse at the south-east corner of Level VIII (Bonc Brig) of Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry.
History
Weighbridge house built between 1900 and 1915 during a period of expansion at the quarry. The quarry opened c1816 and in 1863 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 rendered integral end stack to south-east gable end. Entrance in north-west gable end; horizontal sliding sash window to front wall. Section of narrow gauge railway track alongside with the words "W. & T. AVERY Ltd. BIRMINGHAM" in raised lettering to base-plate. A wagon stands on the track.
Interior
Retains cast-iron balancing mechanism and weighbridge.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved early C20 weighbridge house with weighbridge surviving intact, directly adjoining contemporary locomotive shed.
Nearby in the register
- Locomotive ShedIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Winding houseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Locomotive ShedIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.