Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Water Mill & Wheel House at Felin Fawr Slate Works
Llandygai, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 11 April 1990
- Locality
- Coed-y-parc
- Community
- Llandygai
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.17624, -4.07293
- Cadw reference
- 4158
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the eastern side of the yard at the Felin Fawr Slate Works, which adjoin the former Penrhyn Slate Quarry Railway and the west bank of the Afon Galedffrwd.
History
Probably erected in 1906/7 when the Felin Fawr Slate Works site was extended eastwards across the public road. The wheel formerly drove the blower for the foundry and machine shop. Disused at time of Survey, the workshop complex was formerly the principal slate and slab manufacturing yard for the Penrhyn Slate Quarry, one of the most productive in Wales.
Exterior
Simple, low rectangular plan building, aligned roughly north-south with small lower hip-roofed addition attached to north end, the hipped ends aligned east-west. Coursed slate slabs; hipped slate roof with projecting boarded eaves to both main range and addition. West side of main range has doorways to left and right flanking central wide doorway, all under long slate lintels and blocked at time of inspection. Addition to north end has infilled doorway on west side. Lean-to on east side of main range.
Interior
Interior retains a 26 ft (7.9m) cast-iron water wheel of 1906 set low in wheelpit.
Reason for designation
Included as an integral part of the exceptional group of buildings at the Felin Fawr Slate Works.
Nearby in the register
- Fitting and Repair Shop at Felin Fawr Slate WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Eastern Slab Mill at Felin Fawr Slate WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Foundry at Felin Fawr Slate WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Water Wheel House between slab mills at Felin Fawr Slate WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.