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
- 53.05924, -4.22649
- Cadw reference
- 23737
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
Directly adjoins the drumhouse on Level IV (Bonc Isa') of Pen-yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry.
History
Built in 1878 to house the locomotive Kelso, later extended to hold a second locomotive. The quarry opened c1816 when it was worked by William Turner. In 1863 it was bought by W A Darbishire & Co., after which it underwent substantial modernisation, reflected in the use of both water and steam power. During the 1890s about 450 men worked here; it finally closed in 1997.
Exterior
Roughly coursed slate-slab constructed rectangular plan building with extension to south-east end; gable-ended slate roof (slates largely missing at time of Survey). Main entrance in north-west gable end with 2 pedestrian doorways, one blocked, to north-east long wall.
Interior
A-frame trusses.
Reason for designation
Included as part of the remarkably well-preserved complex of structures at Pen-yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry, forming a group with other buildings on Level IV and important also as a structure from the first major period of expansion at the quarry.
Nearby in the register
- Winding DrumhouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Slab MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Winding Drumhouse and InclineIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Slate MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.