Small pit with incline down to lake.**

Surviving features include the tipping run from the upper, older workings, a weighhouse, some small structures, and a bridge over the road. A blocked access tunnel leads to the lower working. On the waste bank, a row of seven dressing sheds remains, now reused, alongside the weighhouse and other buildings. The incline is still evident, and the pre-incline road descending towards the lake can still be traced.

Vaynol was a hillside pit whose acquisition by Assheton Smith and subsequent renaming allowed the Padarn Railway to follow a lakeside route. An incline serving the quarry was constructed after 1888, connecting it to the railway. The quarry was disused by 1912.