Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Toll gate and gate piers at entrance to Marl Farmyard
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 8 October 1981
- Locality
- Llandudno Junction
- Community
- Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29187, -3.80464
- Cadw reference
- 3320
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
To the NW of the farm, fronting the road almost opposite the entrance to Marl Hall.
History
A toll gate probably of the 1820s, to a standard design used by Thomas Telford on his Chester-Holyhead Road. Later removed to the farmyard and set between existing gate piers.
Exterior
A wrought-iron gate between monolithic stone piers with pyramid caps. The black-painted gate has sunburst bars radiating from the inner corners in characteristic Telford style. A bolt is later.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a rare surviving early C19 toll gate of the type favoured by Thomas Telford.
Nearby in the register
- Marl Hall including terrace at frontDomesticunder 1 mi
- Warden's residence at Marl HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Kitchen garden walls at Bodysgallen HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls, steps, terraces & gate to Water Garden at Bodysgallen HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.