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
84020
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/02/2005
Date of Amendment
25/02/2005
Name of Property
Station House at Tan-y-bwlch Station
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Maentwrog
Town
Locality
Tan-y-bwlch
Easting
264986
Northing
341585
Street Side
NE
Location
Set back from the NE side of the B4410 on the northern approach to the small hamlet of Tan-y-bwlch.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
In 1832 an Act of Parliament was obtained for the construction of the line between the slate quarries at Blaenau Ffestiniog down to the shipping wharfs at the new town of Porthmadoc. Passenger traffic started in 1865 and the line prospered for many years, but by the end of the century the decreasing demand for slate combined with the transfer of traffic via the newer links to Blaenau by L&NWR and GWR railways, led to a substantially reduced revenue for the Ffestiniog railway. Its use continued to be depleted until passenger services stopped in September 1939, and slate traffic in 1946. Passenger traffic was eventually resumed, and a service to Tan y bwlch station was restored in 1958. Whilst other buildings and structures at the station have been altered or rebuilt, the station house remains unchanged.
Exterior
Single storey station house built of roughly coursed rubble masonry; decorative slate roof with advanced eaves and verges, shaped barge boards and rectangular ridge stacks with capping. The principal elevation faces the railway, the central doorway under a slate roofed porch canopy; flanking windows are timber casements of 3-lights, 2 to each end of the range.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).
Reason for designation
Listed as a little altered early C19 station house of interest as an integral part of the Festiniog railway.
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