Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Toll Gate Cottage
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94252, -3.38050
- Cadw reference
- 7140
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
Opposite Plas y Ffynnon; to NE of canal bridge.
History
Probably early C19 with later alterations. The toll gate was moved from the cottage to Camden Road in 1860.
Exterior
One-and-a-half storey cottage. Painted rubble; slate roofs, half-hipped to N and S. West elevation of two bays; sash windows without glazing bars; upper windows partly in roof space. North elevation with a sash window without glazing bars above; below, a fixed window. East elevation with very tall rendered chimney, and single-storey lean-to addition. Elevation facing canal has single first floor sash window, tall rendered chimney, and gabled addition.
Reason for designation
Former early C19 toll cottage with Group Value with adjacent canal and railway bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Canal and former Hay Railway bridge to SW of Toll Gate CottageTransportunder 1 mi
- Ty CamlasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Building to E of Keep at BarracksDefenceunder 1 mi
- Block 18 (H Block)Health and Welfareunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.