Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Communal Lavatory
Llandygai, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Porth Penrhyn, Llandygai, Gwynedd, designated on 16 December 1974.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1974
- Locality
- Porth Penrhyn
- Community
- Llandygai
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23392, -4.11166
- Cadw reference
- 4135
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 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the western quay of New Dock at Porth Penrhyn.
History
Built as part of the development of the harbour at Porth Penrhyn in the early C19.
Exterior
Single-storey circular plan. Tooled and dressed rubblestone blocks with reddish brown brick dressings to windows and door; conical graded slate roof surmounted by pyramidal-shaped ventilator with ball finial. Segmental-headed doorway with recessed plank door on north side and 6 port-hole windows below eaves.
Interior
Access not possible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a distinctive and well-preserved building representative of a particularly unusual building type.
Nearby in the register
- New Dock (quay)Miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Former Locomotive ShedIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Dockmaster's OfficeMaritimeunder 1 mi
- The CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.