Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22648
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/1999
Date of Amendment
04/11/1999
Name of Property
Former Railway Carriage Shed
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanddeiniolen
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Pont-Rhythallt
Easting
254841
Northing
363635
Street Side
Location
Situated immediately adjacent to minor track/road from Pont-Rhythallt to Brynrefail on the course of the former Padarn 4ft (1.22m) Gauge Railway north of the Afon Seiont approximately 400m east of the bridge at Pont-Rhythallt.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built in 1896 to serve as a carriage shed on the Padarn 4ft (1.22m) gauge railway, which opened in 1843 to transport slate from the Dinorwic Quarry to Port Dinorwic. The building was used as a store and to house donkeys at time of Survey.
Exterior
Extremely long gable-ended rectangular structure approximately 130m in length. Roughly coursed rubblestone with buttered pointing to long sides; squared slabs to gable ends; slate roof. North long side has 5 widely spaced tall rectangular louvred openings with slate cills, 3 to centre immediately above doorways with pale brick dressings. East gable end has iron track for former tall sliding doors and date "1896" inscribed to slate slab above; present recessed steel doors in railway carriage entrance are C20; pedestrian door in west gable end.
Interior
Originally completely open interior with plastered walls and multi-trussed iron king-post roof with raking struts to timber single purlins and timber rafters has some concrete block partitioning (for housing animals) at each end.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual and very well-preserved example of a late C19 4ft (1.22m) gauge railway carriage shed on the old Padarn Railway.
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