Foundry at Felin Fawr Slate Works is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 April 1990. Foundry.

Foundry at Felin Fawr Slate Works

WRENN ID
tangled-pillar-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
11 April 1990
Type
Foundry
Address
Foundry at Felin Fawr Slate Works, Coed-Y-Parc, Llandygai
OS grid reference
SH 615 663
Coordinates
53.176, -4.07364
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Foundry at Felin Fawr Slate Works is a tall rectangular building, oriented roughly north-south. It is constructed from coursed and dressed slate slabs, featuring granite quoins and a gable-ended slate roof with stone kneelers and circular brace plates. On the western side, there are four timber windows, each with three lights, long slate lintels, and cills. The south gable end once had an external, tapering square stack made of orange brick, with the remaining brickwork rising above a round-arched opening; there is an infilled doorway to the right. The north gable end has a similar arch and also includes a small lean-to roofed section in the north-west angle. The eastern roof slope features rooflights, while the wall below is concealed by an adjoining fitting and repair shop. At the southern end, a lower gabled, slated range with a small brick stack runs at right angles to the west, against which is an open three-bay slate-roofed lean-to supported by cast-iron columns; the eastern bay overlaps the southern gable end of the main building.

Inside, the building retains massive wooden trusses with braced timbers on cast-iron brackets, which once supported a travelling crane.

Local climate

Foundry at Felin Fawr Slate Works 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 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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