Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Toll Gauger's Hut to E of No 1 The Locks
Carreghofa, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 5 April 1993
- Community
- Carreghofa
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.77489, -3.10682
- Cadw reference
- 14181
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Close to north side of upper lock and lying to the east of the former Wharfinger's House.
History
Built 1825 to collect tolls at the junction of the Montgomeryshire and Ellesmere Canals (Carreghofa section opened 1797); hut restored 1986.
Exterior
Square single-storey brick structure with long hipped slate roof incorporating canopy with timber supports facing the canal. Brick stack to rear over lower gabled extension. Wide three-light small pane window under segmental arch facing canal, plank side door with second door to rear.
Reason for designation
Group value with other canal structure in exceptional location at Carreghofa Locks.
Nearby in the register
- Upper Lock ChamberTransportunder 1 mi
- Pigsty with Walled Pen to E of No 1 The LocksAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- By-Pass Pond and Spillway with Sluice-Gate to south of upper lock chamberTransportunder 1 mi
- Lock Gates and Paddle GearTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.