Building 2 (PRN 72344), Treforys Settlement3D ModelNoAI
Treforys Village is a Scheduled Monument (CN321) and a part of the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales World Heritage Site, Component Part 4. It consists of the deserted remains of a planned workers settlement at the head of Cwmystradllyn, built in the 1850s to serve Gorseddau Slate Quarry (CN303). The village was laid out after the Gorseddau Quarry was taken over in 1854. It was said of the quarry ‘everything that could facilitate the works was produced, nothing being wanted but the slate vein.’ It operated for only 12 years, closing finally in 1871.
The village was set out on the hillside, a kilometre west of the quarry. It consisted of three parallel streets with eighteen pairs of rubble-built, single-storey semi-detached cottages. The ruined buildings stand to between 1 and 3m in height. Traces of watercourses and garden plots are visible between the streets.
Cadw commisioned GAT to underake a photogrammetric survey of the setttlement in 2021 in advance of planned consolidation works at the site.
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