Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Retort House of the Old Gas Works (Now Gas Showroom)
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74364, -3.88458
- Cadw reference
- 5075
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
Set back from the street line opposite the entrance to Heol y Dwr.
History
Mid Cl9.
Exterior
3 bay, 2 storey. Coursed rubble masonry. Gently pitched slate roof. Raking gable copings on moulded kneelers. Boarded eaves on modillions. Truncated chimney stack to right, projecting ramped base with string course.
3 tall recessed round arches. Stone voussoirs on impost blocks stressed keystone, pilasters. 3 inset round arched windows to lst floor, stone voussoirs. Modern small pane glazing. Interrupted sill band. Former doorway to centre bay. Deep stone lintel shaped to form doorhead, modern small paned window. Plain plinth.
Former lst floor window to right end elevation alongside chimney base. Round arch, stone voussoirs. Wall below opened to form modern entrance.
2 round arched windows to left end elevation. Stone voussoirs, glazing similar to front.
An architecturally ambitious example of the buildings associated with small rural gas works in the mid Cl9.
Reason for designation
Group value with Governor House to right.
Nearby in the register
- Governor House of the Old Gas WorksDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Waterloo StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Agricultural MerchantsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Aber CafeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.