Maespoeth Locomotive Shed and attached workshops is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 December 1999. Locomotive shed.
Maespoeth Locomotive Shed and attached workshops
- WRENN ID
- endless-crypt-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1999
- Type
- Locomotive shed
- Address
- Maespoeth Locomotive Shed and attached workshops, Corris, Machynlleth
- OS grid reference
- SH 752 068
- Coordinates
- 52.64465, -3.84461
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Maespoeth Locomotive Shed and attached workshops is a building constructed of slate, featuring 13-inch pale brick arches for its windows and openings, topped with a slate roof. The structure has nine bays on each side, each bay containing tall windows beneath segmental brick arches, with six large panes of glass and slate sills. The eaves project outward. At the north end, there are three large flying buttresses made of slate, supporting a pent roof. The south end has a 2-meter wide opening directly above the railway line, framed by a high semi-circular brick arch, with a tall and narrow round-headed window to the left, which is now blocked. Attached to this end is a single-storey workshop range.
Each bay is supported by king-post and raking strut trusses, which hold up two purlins and a ridge piece. A tramway line runs the full length of the east side and includes two inspection pits. Originally, a large water cistern was integrated into the roof, with a delivery pipe leading to a water column positioned externally against the main line, although this is now lost. A coach shed that once stood in front of the locomotive shed has been removed, along with the adjacent ground frame.
Local climate
Maespoeth Locomotive Shed and attached workshops sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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