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: young-storey-honey
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Snowdonia National Park
Country: Wales
Date first listed: 1 February 1996
Type: Drumhouse
Source: Cadw listing

Description

Description: Remote counter-balance incline drumhouse; late C19 or early C20. Slate construction with thick supporting gable walls carrying the original twin drums and coiled cable. Shallow-pitched slate roof, partly collapsed; heavily buttressed SE gable. The brake mechanism survives externally to the L, in front of a slate revetment wall.

Listed as an exceptionally scarce survival of an intact counter-balance incline drumhouse.

In poor condition at time of inspection (June 1995).

References: D. Rh Gwyn and A. Davidson, 'Gwynedd Slate Quarries', Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, Report No. 152, (forthcoming).

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