Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
23674
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/07/2000
Date of Amendment
21/07/2000
Name of Property
Drying House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanllyfni
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Pen-yr-Orsedd
Easting
250910
Northing
354140
Street Side
Location
Located on Level VIII (Bonc Brig) of the Pen-yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry at the foot of the modern steep access road from Y Fron.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Drying house for quarrymens' clothes, built c1900. The quarry opened c1816 and in 1863 it was bought by W A Darbishire & Co. During the 1890s about 450 men worked here: it finally closed in 1997.
Exterior
Regularly coursed slate slabs; slate roof with tall integral red brick stack to foot of roof slope at right corner; metal boiler flue to ridge slightly to right of centre. Front has now doorless opening to left; right gable end has 6-paned sash window to centre with similar smaller sash window above to right.
Interior
Retains central stove.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved drying house, which is part of a group with other quarry structures directly adjacent on Level VIII of the Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry and important for the evidence it provides of its social organisation.
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