Detail Report - Bangor Civic Society
Detail Report - Bangor Civic Society
Detail Report - Bangor Civic Society
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Authority Gwynedd<br />
Community Llandygai<br />
Locality Coed-y-parc<br />
Name<br />
Formerly Listed As<br />
Location<br />
<strong>Detail</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
Foundry at Felin Fawr Slate Works<br />
Record No 4157<br />
Grid Ref 261506 366328<br />
Grade II<br />
Located immediately to the south of the eastern slab mill at Felin Fawr Slate Works.<br />
History<br />
North-west section of former fitting & repair shop at Felin Fawr Slate Works, B4366,<br />
Coed-y-parc<br />
Dating from 1832, the foundry is one of the earliest buildings at the Felin Fawr Slate Works, which complex was<br />
formerly the principal slate and slab manufacturing yard for the Penrhyn Slate Quarry, one of the most productive<br />
in Wales. The foundry chimney has been demolished.<br />
Exterior<br />
Tall rectangular plan building, aligned roughly north-south. Coursed and dressed slate slab construction with<br />
granite quoins and gable-ended slate roof with stone kneelers; circular brace plates. Four 3-light timber windows<br />
with long slate lintels and cills on western side. South gable end formerly with external, tapering square stack in<br />
orange brickwork, the remaining brickwork of which rises above the brickwork of a round-arched opening;<br />
infilled doorway to right. Similar arch to north gable end which also has a small lean-to roofed section in northwest<br />
angle. Eastern roof slope with rooflights, wall below concealed by adjoining fitting and repair shop. Lower<br />
gabled, slated range with small brick stack runs at right-angles to west at southern end, against which is an open<br />
3-bay slate-roofed lean-to on cast-iron columns, the eastern bay of which overlaps the southern gable end of the<br />
main building.<br />
Interior<br />
Interior retains massive wooden trusses with braced timbers on cast-iron brackets formerly supporting a travelling<br />
crane.<br />
Listed<br />
Included as one of the earliest surviving structures at the exceptional group of buildings comprising the Felin<br />
Fawr Slate Works.<br />
Reference<br />
Date Listed<br />
Date Amended<br />
Date Delisted<br />
J I C Boyd, Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarfonshire, vol. 2 (1985), pp72-4.<br />
11/04/1990<br />
24/05/2000<br />
20 February 2012 Page 42 of 174
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