Engine House, Boilerhouse, Bunker and remains of chimney to south is a Grade II* listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 December 1992. Industrial building.
Engine House, Boilerhouse, Bunker and remains of chimney to south
- WRENN ID
- slow-lime-reed
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1992
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Engine House, Boilerhouse, Bunker and remains of chimney to south, Nantlle, Llanllyfni
- OS grid reference
- SH 497 531
- Coordinates
- 53.05419, -4.24348
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Engine House, Boilerhouse, Bunker, and remains of the chimney to the south are notable structures built from sawn squared slate blocks and topped with a gable-ended slate roof. The building stands three storeys high over a basement and has a rectangular plan, oriented roughly from northwest to southeast. Each face features small-paned sash windows with slate lintels and cills. The entrance is located in the southeast end wall, which is under a brick arch and accessed by sawn slab steps. There is a large opening on the ground floor of the northwest end wall, also with a brick arch.
High up on the northeast wall, there are remains of a clock positioned between the top-floor windows. An iron beam from the engine is supported high on the northwest wall and extends through vertical timber boarding in the gable. A pair of doors flanking the beam opens onto the remains of wooden inspection balconies. At the northwest end, the shaft head is enclosed by a wall of sawn slate blocks approximately 2 meters high, which is attached to the engine house. This shaft head is spanned by two steel joists.
On the southwest wall of the engine house, the remains of the boiler house can be seen; it is now roofless but retains its principal timbers and contains the remnants of two boilers. To the south, there is a square base of the remote chimney, made of sawn slate blocks and standing about 3 meters high; the former iron extension has been removed. Access to the interior was not available at the time of the survey, but it is noted to retain its early 20th-century Cornish beam engine.
Local climate
Engine House, Boilerhouse, Bunker and remains of chimney to south 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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