Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tollgate Cottage aka Cerdwyd
Maentwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Maentwrog, Gwynedd, designated on 25 February 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2005
- Locality
- Maentwrog
- Community
- Maentwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.94719, -3.98829
- Cadw reference
- 83966
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the E side of the A496 at the N end of the village of Maentwrog; directly SE of Pont Maentwrog.
History
Late C19 cottage. Shown as toll cottage on 1st edition O.S. map, and built by the Tan y bwlch estate as part of an extensive programme of rebuilding and improvement in the late C19.
Offered up for sale in the auction of the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate, 1910, in Lot 12 'The Picturesque Rural Village of Maentwrog'. The property was described as The Old Tollgate, occupied by Richard Pugh, for an annual rent of £6-0s-0d (£6.00).
Exterior
House, in the simplified gothic style characteristic of the later C19 work by the Tan-y-bwlch estate. Rubble built, slate roof with eaves projecting on brackets, central stack with diagonal shaft. One and a half storeys, T-shaped plan with advanced central gable. This has a 2-light casement window on each floor. Doorways in flanking bays, and casement windows in gable ends. All openings have drop-ended hood-moulds.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).
Reason for designation
Listed as a late C19 tollgate cottage retaining original character as an estate cottage and forming a group with the adjacent road bridge and milestone at the N end of the estate village of Maentwrog.
Nearby in the register
- Milestone at Pont MaentwrogTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont MaentwrogTransportunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable block to S of The Old RectoryAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.