Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Locomotive Shed
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
- 53.06246, -4.22299
- Cadw reference
- 23727
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 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
Built between 1900 and 1915 during a period of expansion at the quarry. 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 exposed rafter feet and integral end stack to south-east gable. Rectangular plan. One tall and one lower entrance, both with steel lintels, to north-west gable end. 12-light horizontal window in south-east gable end. Alongside is an iron tank on a slate plinth, used for supplying water to the locomotives.
Interior
Roof in 2 bays with central A-frame truss.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved early C20 locomotive shed with contemporary weighbridge house directly adjacent.
Nearby in the register
- Weighbridge HouseIndustrialunder 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.