Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Diffwys Railway Station (now public toilets)
Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, designated on 28 June 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Miscellaneous
- Date of designation
- 28 June 1988
- Locality
- Blaenau Ffestiniog
- Community
- Ffestiniog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99489, -3.93463
- Cadw reference
- 5208
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located in an open car park (former railway yard) off the High Street.
History
Opened in the summer of 1866 as a terminus on the narrow gauge Porthmadog- Ffestiniog railway (later run by LNWR company). In use until 1932 and converted to public toilets 2 years later.
Exterior
Small-scale, single-storey symmetrical front with outer advanced gabled wings. Snecked rubble with dressed quoins and moulded string course over centre openings; yellow brick surrounds. Slate roof with fish-scale patterning, clay ridge tiles and red/yellow patterned brick stacks. Ironwork cusping to bargeboards. Slate gable plaques with Prince of Wales feathers carved by Robert Roberts, poet and carver, over cambered and droved lintels to recessed boarded doorways; modern doors. The central section has a modern arched disabled entrance flanked by original sash windows. Arched doorways to blocked inner angle matched by oculus over ticket opening with slate cill. Modern Victorian-style bracketed lamps above doors. Modern brick forecourt with iron bollards. Single rear opening with toothed surround; double boarded doors. Gothic-headed sash window to W gable end.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a former railway station associated with the local slate industry.
Nearby in the register
- Tai UncornDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tai UncornDomesticunder 1 mi
- Masonic HallMiscellaneousunder 1 mi
- 59 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.