Crane at Former Llechwedd Sidings is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 November 2001. Hoist.
Crane at Former Llechwedd Sidings
- WRENN ID
- woven-stair-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 November 2001
- Type
- Hoist
- Address
- Crane at Former Llechwedd Sidings, Llechwedd Slate Mine, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 697 468
- Coordinates
- 53.00291, -3.94319
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The crane at the former Llechwedd Sidings is a Grade II listed structure featuring a manually-operated hoist made of cast iron. It is situated on a platform with coped sidings. The hoist has a tapering iron Doric column, which includes a swivel mechanism at the base that allows the crane arm to rotate from side to side. A crankshaft operates a large spoked wheel that controls the arm, which is a tapering octagonal mast made of painted pine and approximately 5 meters long. The foundry plate indicates it was made by W and J Galloway in Manchester.
Local climate
Crane at Former Llechwedd Sidings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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