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Toll House Cottage

Llanfyllin, Powys, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Llanfyllin, Powys, designated on 22 March 1993.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Toll House Cottage, Llanfyllin, Powys, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Transport
Date of designation
22 March 1993
Community
Llanfyllin
Unitary authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.76958, -3.28723
Cadw reference
8548

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1897 · 137 Oswestry (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

On S side of B 4391 at junction with B 4393, partially built into road embankment.

Late C18 toll house.

Brick walls (painted), slate roof, central rectangular brick chimney (painted). Cruciform plan with long axis parallel to road. Elevation to road has central projecting gabled bay with first floor Gothic window; on ground floor, broad Gothic-arched recess (formerly housing for toll rates); return to L has first floor window with diamond cames, and entrance doorway with boarded door (circa 1920); to L, ground floor window. R return of bay has single rectangular window. To R of this, facing road, blind rectangular window, and on ground floor one mullioned and transomed window with diamond cames. Gable facing W has two-light rectangular first floor window with diamond cames; modern extension to ground floor.
Gable end facing towards Llanfyllin (E) has on each floor one mullioned and transomed window with diamond cames, shutters to ground floor window.
Rear elevation to B4393 has single camber-headed window to each side of bay, and small window in L return of bay.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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