Retort House of the Old Gas Works (Now Gas Showroom) is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Gas works showroom.
Retort House of the Old Gas Works (Now Gas Showroom)
- WRENN ID
- far-cobalt-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1990
- Type
- Gas works showroom
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
3 bay, 2 storey. Coursed rubble masonry. Gently pitched slate roof. Raking gable copings on moulded kneelers. Boarded eaves on modillions. Truncated chimney stack to right, projecting ramped base with string course. 3 tall recessed round arches. Stone voussoirs on impost blocks stressed keystone, pilasters. 3 inset round arched windows to lst floor, stone voussoirs. Modern small pane glazing. Interrupted sill band. Former doorway to centre bay. Deep stone lintel shaped to form doorhead, modern small paned window. Plain plinth. Former lst floor window to right end elevation alongside chimney base. Round arch, stone voussoirs. Wall below opened to form modern entrance.
2 round arched windows to left end elevation. Stone voussoirs, glazing similar to front.
An architecturally ambitious example of the buildings associated with small rural gas works in the mid Cl9.
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