84020

 

II  

Designated  

25/02/2005  

25/02/2005  

Station House at Tan-y-bwlch Station  

 

Gwynedd  

Maentwrog  

 

Tan-y-bwlch  

264986  

341585  

NE  

Set back from the NE side of the B4410 on the northern approach to the small hamlet of Tan-y-bwlch.  

 

 

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.  

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.  

The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).  

Listed as a little altered early C19 station house of interest as an integral part of the Festiniog railway.