Engine House and Chimney adjoining Workshops, Llandwrog, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0739 / 53°4'25"N

Longitude: -4.3081 / 4°18'29"W

OS Eastings: 245472

OS Northings: 355449

OS Grid: SH454554

Mapcode National: GBR 5G.B9ZL

Mapcode Global: WH43L.SZQW

Plus Code: 9C5Q3MFR+GQ

Entry Name: Engine House and Chimney adjoining Workshops

Listing Date: 8 September 1998

Last Amended: 30 September 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20460

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300020460

Location: Immediately to the west of the Workshops and at right angles to the western courtyard range. Reached from the north side of the country park visitor centre.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Llandwrog

Locality: Glynllifon

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Probably contemporary with the Workshops which date from before 1832 but remodelled later in C19 when the turbines were installed. This building was crucial to the efficient running of the increasingly mechanised estate, the watermill being too far away to have provided power for the group of buildings now known as the Workshops but formerly containing ancillary services such as gas works, tannery, smithy, slate mill and sawmill.

Glynllifon was the seat of the Wynn family and Sir Thomas John Wynn became the 1st Lord Newborough in 1776. The house was rebuilt after a fire 1836-48 by Edward Haycock, architect of Shrewsbury.

Exterior

Gable-ended engine house with tapering cylindrical brick chimney stack with neck band and cornice and rising from a square base. The slate roof has ventilators. The front has a central round-arched entrance with red brick voussoirs and modern doors under a fanlight; in the gable is a circular ventilator. Service openings either side of the entrance, that to the right altered with an inserted window. Another small squared brick stack.

The south wall of the central of the three former kitchen gardens continues along the north side of the engine house and there is an arched entrance at this point.

Interior

Retains furnace boiler made in 1854 and with foundry plate of 'Thomas and De Winton of Carnarvon'.

Reasons for Listing

Included for the special interest of this well-preserved C19 estate engine house retaining a fine chimney and having important group value with the Workshops at Glynllifon.

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II Workshops
On the westernmost edge of the complex of estate buildings immediately adjacent to Glynllifon House; south of the central walled garden.
II Machinery Workshops to north-west of Stables at Glynllifon
Quadrangular complex situated at south-end of the eastern kitchen garden and to north-west of the Stable block. Now used as Machinery Workshops for the College.
II Western pair of walled former Kitchen Gardens at Glynllifon
Situated to the west of the road that leads up to the estate farm and extending west for approximately 500m.
II Gardener's Cottage and attached archway to south of Kitchen Gardens
Situated at the south end of the easternmost kitchen garden; close to the Palm House.
II Eastern Walled Kitchen Garden
Situated to east of the road up to the estate farm.
II Inner arched entrance to courtyard between Palm House and Workshops
Bordering the south side of the small courtyard south of the kitchen gardens and with the Palm House at right angles to east; parallel with another screen wall and archway facing the stables.
II Palm House including former Eagle House
Situated within the small courtyard to south of the kitchen gardens. Faces west between the screen wall to south, with arched entrance, and the small gardener's cottage to north.
II L-shaped screen wall adjoining stables and workshops at west end of service drive to kitchen court
Two attached sections of screen wall adjoining, and at right angles to, the stables to south and the workshops to west; closes the rear service drive to the kitchen court.

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Engine House and Chimney adjoining Workshops

A Grade II Listed Building in Llandwrog, Gwynedd