Remote Incline Drumhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1996. Drumhouse.
Remote Incline Drumhouse
- WRENN ID
- tattered-chimney-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1996
- Type
- Drumhouse
- Address
- Remote Incline Drumhouse, Maenofferen Slate Quarry, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 714 466
- Coordinates
- 53.00132, -3.91646
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Remote Incline Drumhouse is a late 19th century or early 20th century structure used for counter-balancing incline operations. It is built from slate and features thick supporting gable walls that hold the original twin drums and coiled cable. The roof is shallow-pitched and partly collapsed, while the southeast gable is heavily buttressed. To the left of the building, the brake mechanism is still visible, positioned in front of a slate revetment wall. This drumhouse is noted for being an exceptionally rare example of an intact counter-balance incline drumhouse. At the time of inspection in June 1995, it was in poor condition.
Local climate
Remote Incline Drumhouse 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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