Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Happy Valley Toll Office
Llandudno, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1976
- Locality
- Llandudno
- Community
- Llandudno
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33113, -3.83062
- Cadw reference
- 25307
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
About 300m NW of pier, forming entrance to Marine Drive.
History
1878. A pedestrian path, Cust's Path, had been engineered in the cliff faces of the Great Orme in the 1850's, so vertiginous that Gladstone complained that he had had to blindfolded in order to be led along certain sections. In 1872, The Great Orme's Head Marine Drive Co was inaugurated to convert the path to a carriage drive. Work began in September 1875, and was completed in 1878.
Exterior
Toll office faced with rusticated stone blocks of different rectangular and square sizes. Embattled parapets with mock machicolation. Pedestrian arch adjoining office to the right hand. The office is a narrow single storey structure with vaulted pedestrian passageway beside it to the north-east, the latter incorporating remnants of cast-iron toll gates and in addition an unglazed window opening with pointed head in wall to sea. Entrance to pedestrian passage through pointed archway in south-east elevation with a plaque above the archway bearing the following inscription: "Great Ormes Head/Marine Drive/ - Chairman Joseph Evans/-Directors-/St John Charton JP Thomas Williams/James Nichol MD
Major J L Thursby/Secretary RS Chamberlain/Engineer A Foulkes/Erected 1878". South-east elevation of lodge with a bay window with sash lights. South-west elevation with buttress.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved late C19 toll office. Group value with adjacent toll lodge.
Nearby in the register
- Happy Valley LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Jubilee Monument & Fountain to Queen VictoriaCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Lamp StandardGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Nine Lamp StandardsMiscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.