Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate House
Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1995
- Locality
- Pumpsaint
- Community
- Cynwyl Gaeo
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.05333, -3.96937
- Cadw reference
- 16265
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Prominent site on W side of A482 between Pumpsaint and Pont Twrch.
History
Early C19 former toll-collector's cottage. This section of road was maintained by the Llandovery/Lampeter Turnpike Trust which received its first Act in 1778. The toll-cottage is of a slightly later date. The toll-gate survives at the entrance to Ddyfadfa, opposite.
Exterior
Smooth-rendered painted single-storey elevations. Slate roof, hipped angles to front; wooden soffits. Central renewed brick chimney-stack to ridge. Canted 3-sided facade, door to centre blocked, 4-pane window inserted. Four-pane horned sash to each sloping side; all three windows with wide labels. Concrete sills. Plinth. Various C20 lean-to extensions to left, right and rear. Four-pane horned sash intact to left side.
Reason for designation
Attractive former toll-cottage; an important survival of early road-transport history in the region.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Call-box to front of Post Office (tel no: 01558 650395)Communicationsunder 1 mi
- Attached Cottage to left of The ForgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- The ForgeCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Dolaucothi ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.