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
22743
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/12/1999
Date of Amendment
06/12/1999
Name of Property
Slate Fencing for the Ratgoed Tramway and adjoining fields
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Corris
Town
Machynlleth
Locality
Corris
Easting
275707
Northing
308089
Street Side
Location
The fencing lies to the NE of Capel Rehoboth, between the road and the river.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
The track of the tramway above Aberllefenni runs NE along the valley of the Afon Dulas, then turns N to the quarries at Cymerau and Ratgoed. Ratgoed Quarry opened in c1860 and the products were transported by horse tram to Aberllefenni for onward carriage by the Corris railway, in steam from 1879. Slate fencing of a type particular to the district was necessary through the lowland sections to prevent animals straying on to the line.
Exterior
The fencing consists of two lines of slate slabs set vertically, c4 m apart, and secured together by wire strands at the top and bottom. The section E of Capel Rehoboth is approximately 200m long, and is joined at right angles by a field fence of similar construction running SE for 35m, to meet a further fence approximately 80m long running nearly parallel to the tramway. At the chapel end, a further length of similar fencing, 35m long, runs up to the road.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a very well preserved section of the distinctive type of fencing employed in the Corris district, and of interest as part of the tramway formation beyond its junction with the Corris Railway at Aberllefenni, an essential element in the transportation system of the slate industry of the mid C19.
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