Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Turnpike House
Llanllechid, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tan-y-lon, Bangor, Llanllechid, Gwynedd, designated on 9 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 March 2000
- Locality
- Tan-y-lon
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Llanllechid
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.21888, -4.06955
- Cadw reference
- 22937
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located right on road in Tan-y-lon at junction between the old Bangor to Conwy road and the road which runs roughly parallel with it between Tan-y-lon and Eglwys St Cross.
History
Constructed as a toll house on the Bangor to Conway road, which was turnpiked as part of the route between Chester and Holyhead in the 1820s.
Exterior
Single-storey pentagonal building with splayed end to road. Painted regularly coursed rubblestone blocks; graded slate roof. Splayed end has C20 windows in original openings with slate cills to sides and blind panel to centre for former toll board; roughcast ridge stack near splayed end. Entrance in left return through C20 glazed door; C20 flat-roofed addition also on this side. Painted board to eaves on splayed end with pointing hand reads "LLANLLECHID 2 1/2".
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding late C20 windows and extension, as an essentially well-preserved toll keeper's cottage on the former turnpike road.
Nearby in the register
- Tan-y-lonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tan-y-lonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farmbuildings at Ty'n-yr-hendreAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Shelter Shed/Pigsties at Ty'n-yr-hendreAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.