Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Workshop of R.L. Jones & Son
Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, designated on 11 September 2020.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 11 September 2020
- Welsh name
- Gweithdy R.L. Jones & Son
- Locality
- Blaenau Ffestiniog
- Town
- Blaenau Ffestiniog
- Community
- Ffestiniog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99235, -3.92936
- Cadw reference
- 87802
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
Facing the street at the S end of the High Street, on a narrow plot with steep rock face behind.
History
Built in the early C20 and marked on the revision of the Ordnance Survey map made in 1914. The building served as a carpenter’s workshop for a family firm of builders and undertakers. The workshop was disused at the time of inspection.
Exterior
The 2-storey workshop is built principally of corrugated-iron walls and roof on a drystone plinth, with small-pane wood and iron-frame windows where visible. Its gable end faces the street and has plain barge boards and a finial. The rear of the building is built of coursed rubble stone, with stone stack. The upper storey of the corrugated-iron section of the building is jettied on both sides, supported by steel beams and with a boarded soffit. Some of the corrugated-iron sheets have been replaced. Ground-floor windows were mostly boarded-up at the time of inspection. Facing the street it has a replacement door and window to the L, while in the upper storey is a boarded loading door flanked by small-pane windows. Workshop sign with family name and phone number on front of building either side of upper-storey loading-door. In the L side wall are 3 windows in the lower storey and 2 windows above in the corrugated-iron wall, while behind is a further small-pane window in the stone wall. In the R side wall, the stone section of the building retains a boarded door and window in the lower storey, and small-pane window above, whereas in the corrugated-iron section is a single lower storey window and formerly 2 upper-storey windows, one of them covered over.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare well-preserved early-C20 light-industrial roadside building, clad in corrugated-iron sheets that were once commonplace and give the building its distinct character.
Nearby in the register
- 59 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mile PostTransportunder 1 mi
- Pant-yr-Ynn MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- 7 Uwchllaw'rffynnon TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.