Engine Shed on former Padarn Railway is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 April 1997. Engine shed.
Engine Shed on former Padarn Railway
- WRENN ID
- peeling-step-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1997
- Type
- Engine shed
- Address
- Engine Shed on former Padarn Railway, Penscoins, Y Felinheli
- OS grid reference
- SH 534 678
- Coordinates
- 53.18712, -4.19479
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a rectangular engine shed, approximately 40 meters long and 6 meters wide, constructed from slate slabs with a slate roof. It features three regularly spaced windows on each side, all with rail lintels. The northwest end has a large pair of sliding board doors and a slate plaque above that is dated 1895. To the right, there is a water tank supported by a tower made of similar slate slabs. The southeast end has a door on the right side.
Local climate
Engine Shed on former Padarn Railway sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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