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Old Tollgate Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9159 / 52°54'57"N

Longitude: -4.3018 / 4°18'6"W

OS Eastings: 245326

OS Northings: 337865

OS Grid: SH453378

Mapcode National: GBR 5G.NCH3

Mapcode Global: WH44C.WZP0

Plus Code: 9C4QWM8X+97

Entry Name: Old Tollgate Cottage

Listing Date: 19 October 1971

Last Amended: 31 March 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4364

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004364

Location: The tollgate cottage was erected c1808 to control access to the Portmadoc to Porthdinllaen road, B4354.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Criccieth

Community: Llanystumdwy

Community: Llanystumdwy

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Cottage Tollhouse

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History

Erected by the Porthdinllaen Turnpike Trust in c1808, following the passing of the Turnpike Act in 1808, at the start of the last leg of the turnpike commencing at the main Criccieth to Pwllheli road, and passing through Chwilog, Y Ffor, etc to Porthdinllaen near Morfa Nevin.

Exterior

Built of local stone rubble on boulder foundations, with the original small slate roof replaced in October 1998. Single storey, a main living room opening on to an open verandah at the E end. One 6-paned window with deep glazing bars to the main living room facing E, and a paned window on the N side, the central four panes hinged to allow for the collection of tolls, and a smaller window on the S side of the inner room. Stack on the east gable end. At this end, a lean-to roof supported on two timber posts continues over a store at the N corner, and shelters the framed and battened entrance door and a third window facing the road junction. A half-brick wall has been built between the posts, and extends along the S side as a low retaining wall.

Interior

The living room occupies the E end of the cottage, with its fireplace, retaining its original fire beam, set across the angle in the corner to allow for the gable end window. A stone draught partition screens the fireplace from the entrance. The interior was undergoing re-ordering at the time of the inspection, but largely retains the original layout, with the renewed partitions to the inner room leaving a narrow service passage lit from the W gable at the end. New floor joists to the loft chamber. The loft is lit from a small window in the W gable end.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a well preserved turnpike cottage of vernacular character in a prominent position at the start of the final leg to the much vaunted ferry port of Porthdinllaen

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Ysgubor-hen
    The house stands on rising ground mid-way between Llanystumdwy and Chwilog, and 400m N of the toll house on the A497 crossroads.
  • II Bont Fechan
    Located on a cut off section of the main A497 Cricieth to Pwllheli road, SE of the village of Llanystumdwy, and formerly carrying the road over the Afon Dwyfor.
  • II Pont Rhyd-y-croesau
    The bridge carries the road running NW from Llanystumdwy across the deep wooded glen of the Afon Dwyfor.
  • II Plas-y-nant
    The farmhouse is on the S side of the B4354 through Chwilog, at the E end of the village.
  • II Gwynfryn Lodge
    The lodge stands at the S end of the long drive to Plas Gwynfryn, 500m W of Llanystymdwy village.
  • II Plas Gwynfryn
    The house stands in its own parkland N of Llanystumdwy, and is reached from a long driveway from the road running N from the W end of the village.

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