Glanrafon Slate Quarrymen's Barracks provided accommodation for workmen who could not travel in to work at Glanrafon Slate Quarry (NPRN 305780) every day. At Glanrafon there is a unique example of the 'dual row' in which one range of houses formed a basement for a separate range above. The room at the southern end may have included a bow-window where clerks could watch the progress of slate wagons down the incline that connected the quarry to the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway.

Source:
David Gwyn & Merfyn Williams (1996) `A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of North West Wales?. Association for Industrial Archaeology

Claire Parry, RCAHMW, 3 November 2011.