Latitude: 52.7436 / 52°44'37"N
Longitude: -3.8846 / 3°53'4"W
OS Eastings: 272877
OS Northings: 317890
OS Grid: SH728178
Mapcode National: GBR 91.066Q
Mapcode Global: WH56P.99GH
Plus Code: 9C4RP4V8+F5
Entry Name: Retort House of the Old Gas Works (Now Gas Showroom)
Listing Date: 19 June 1990
Last Amended: 19 June 1990
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 5075
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300005075
Location: Set back from the street line opposite the entrance to Heol y Dwr.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Dolgellau
Community: Dolgellau
Built-Up Area: Dolgellau
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Mid Cl9.
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.
Group value with Governor House to right.
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