Engine and Compressor House is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 2000. Engine house.
Engine and Compressor House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-keystone-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 2000
- Type
- Engine house
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Engine and Compressor House is a Grade II listed building constructed with regularly coursed slate slabs and some roughly coursed rubblestone. It features a slate roof with a purple brick stack on the long wall at the front. The building has a rectangular plan, with lean-tos attached to the left gable end and the front right, the latter serving as the compressor house. There is a boarded door and a six-paned window on the right gable end of the engine house. This structure is associated with a collapsed blondin ropeway system.
Inside the engine house, there are winding drums operated by a Bruce Peebles 3-phase motor from 1906, which is connected through reduction gearing. The motor, control mechanism, and liquid controller are still present. The compressor house contains an electric motor along with a horizontal single-cylinder Ingersoll Sargeant air compressor and a receiving chamber.
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