Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
16886
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
01/02/1996  
Date of Amendment
 
Name of Property
Railway Bridge at Former Llechwedd Sidings  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Ffestiniog  
Town
 
Locality
Llechwedd Slate Mine  
Easting
269692  
Northing
346874  
Street Side
W  
Location
Near the S entrance of Blaenau railway tunnel, immediately W of the road on the downhill approach to the town from the Crimea Pass.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
Description: Pair of cast-iron railway beam bridges, constructed 1879 when the Llechwedd slate mine established railway sidings to the E of the main railway track.. From here the slates were transported by rail to transhipment wharves at Deganwy. The bridges are heavily-rivetted and consist of 2 panels; the larger of the two spans the Afon Barlwydd at an angle and is approximately 6m long; that with the shallower beam spans a former tramway leading to a now disused incline. Originally carrying single tracks from the sidings to the main line, the rails have now been removed. Listed as scarce examples of later C19 cast-iron beam bridges, and for group value with other listed items at the former Llechwedd sidings. References: I. W. Jones, Llechwedd Slate Caverns, 1986, passim. J.G. Isherwood, Slate From Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1988, 43.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

Group Description
Two Railway Bridges at Former Llechwedd Sidings  

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