Halt Room
The building now known as the Halt Room at Boston Lodge Halt was built in 1857 for weighing wagons loaded with slate, and is presently empty.
| Halt Room | |
| Location | Boston Lodge North side of Old Engine Shed (FR No 89). |
| Register No | 88 |
| T. Corner ID | BL00.01 |
| Operational | Yes |
| Heritage Status | Listed grade 2. Highly significant. Built 1857, and is attached to the loco shed which dates from 1863. |
| Cadw Blg ID | 14423 Cadw listing text as follows:-
Exterior. Like the other mid C19 buildings here it is built of local slatey rubble and in this case also has quoins. Slate roof with stone chimney stack to south and wide eaves which are bracketed to the asymmetrical gable end; on the west side the eaves line slopes down towards the south, exaggerated by the fact that the walls are not parallel. The gable end has a boarded door beside a narrow sash window, with glazing bar to upper sash; overall stone lintel. West side has 3-light, small-pane, timber window beneath which are apertures for the counter-balance rods used in weighing the wagons on the line. One small-pane sash window on the east side. At south end it is attached to locomotive shed. |
| Description | Solid stone walls under a duo pitched roof covered with slates. East and West walls are not parallel. The track with the weighbridge would have passed along the West wall. The ridge of the roof is parallel to the East wall and the main line on the East side. |
| Present use | Store room |
| Previous use | Halt Room. Was used as volunteer accommodation until the 1990s. It was built as a weigh house in 1857, replacing an earlier one at the Porthmadog end of the Cob, and itself was replaced in 1871/2 by the current Minffordd Weigh House. It was originally free-standing, but in 1871 the 1863 loco shed was extended, by adding to the fitting shop a stationary steam engine and a boiler house to supply it. This joined up with the Weigh House. |
| Condition | The building is generally sound. |
| Urgent and Immediate Repairs required | The following repairs are urgently required (2013):- |
| Less urgent repairs | A summary of the repairs required are as follows:-
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| Improvements needed | The following works go beyond 'repairs'.
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| Potential alternative uses | The future use of this building could be to re-instate the weighing machines from Minffordd inside and have a tableau of waggons outside as a heritage project and addition to the Boston Lodge tour. |
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