Sett Makers Huts at New Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 November 1995. House.
Sett Makers Huts at New Bank
- WRENN ID
- idle-oriel-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 November 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sett Makers Huts at New Bank, Penmaenmawr Quarry, Penmaenmawr
- OS grid reference
- SH 716 754
- Coordinates
- 53.26065, -3.92514
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Sett Makers Huts at New Bank, located at Penmaenmawr Quarry, include an early 20th-century counterbalance incline drumhouse and a series of sett makers' huts. The drumhouse is built of snecked rubble and features wide buttressing on the gable ends that face the partly disturbed incline. The roof is made of timber planking, and within the thick gable walls, the original pine drum and steel cables are still in place, along with an external brake mechanism.
To the east of the drumhouse, there are seven contemporary sett makers' huts or cubicles where quarried stone was processed into setts. These huts are also constructed from snecked rubble and are open at the front. They have dividing walls, with the two northernmost huts sharing a supporting pillar but lacking a dividing wall. Each cubicle includes a tool niche in the rear wall, and one wall features graffiti dated 1921. The roofs of the huts are flat and made of mid-20th-century concrete.
Local climate
Sett Makers Huts at New Bank sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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