Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Toll Cottage
Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 10 July 1998
- Locality
- Cwmduad
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Cynwyl Elfed
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95442, -4.36412
- Cadw reference
- 20116
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On W side of A 484, in loop of old road now by-passed.
History
Early C19 toll house. According to local tradition replaced wooden toll house burned by Rebecca Rioters in 1847.
Exterior
Single storey toll house with semi-hexagonal front. Rubble (lime-washed) with slate sills and rectangular hood moulds over windows; hipped slate roof, central rectangular stone chimney with tented slate cover. Central doorway (C20 stable door); to each side in splays, original narrow window openings with late C19/early C20 horned sash windows; similar window to L side (towards rear) has casement glazing.
Interior
Not inspected but, said to be divided into 2 rooms by transverse wall with fireplace, front room has recess said to have been used for toll monies; doorway to rear room which has modern partition forming kitchen/bathroom.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved early C19 toll house.
Nearby in the register
- Nantclawdd IsafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pantyffynnon IsafDomesticunder 1 mi
- BlaencerdinDomesticunder 1 mi
- WaunyrhafodDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.