Eureka Slate Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 2000. Industrial.
Eureka Slate Mill
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-panel-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 2000
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Eureka Slate Mill, Pen-Yr-Orsedd, Caernarfon, Llanllyfni
- OS grid reference
- SH 509 540
- Coordinates
- 53.06254, -4.22622
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Eureka Slate Mill is a 19th-century industrial building constructed from regularly coursed slate slabs and rubblestone. It features half-hipped slate roofs with full-length skylights along the ridges of the original building, although these have been extended down the roof slopes with corrugated plastic sheeting. The original layout consists of two long rectangular ranges oriented from southeast to northwest, separated by a central valley. The lower gabled ranges to the northwest may be original or added shortly thereafter. Both main ranges were initially accessible by railways at the end walls, and a doorway has been inserted into the long northeast wall to allow tracked vehicles access.
In 1978, a large breeze block and metal-sheet roofed building was added to the northeast side, connecting the mill to a small late 19th-century stone structure that has a lean-to slate slab roof. The original king-post roof structure remains intact in the 19th-century building. Inside, the mill contains late 20th-century Anderson Grice saws and a slate dresser, along with a conveyor belt installed in the southeast gable for removing trimming waste.
Local climate
Eureka Slate Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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