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13/03/2003  

NO.39 (OLD TOLL HOUSE) SWANSEA ROAD,TREBANOS,,,,,WEST GLAMORGAN,  

39 Swansea Road  

Castell-nedd Port Talbot  

Pontardawe  

 

 

271691  

203423  

 

Situated on the NW side of Swansea Road some 750m SW of the centre of Pontardawe.  

Cludiant  

 

Earlier C19 tollhouse at the former Ynysderw tollgate on the Swansea to Brecon turnpike road. Bargeboards and overhanging gables removed since 1975 listing. A damaged milestone in wall to right has VIII presumably 8 miles to Swansea. Occupied by Charles Davies, gatekeeper, 1861 and Edward Hopgood road labourer 1871, turnpike tolls abolished 1888.  

Former tollhouse, coursed squared sandstone with tooled stone dressings and close-eaved slate gabled roof, formerly with end bargeboards and finials. Centre axial ridge chimney with 3 rendered octagonal shafts on stone plinth. Front has quoins and chamfered surrounds to openings. Square-headed 2-light timber window each side of Tudor-arched doorway with keystone. C20 ledged door, C19 windows with single slab lintels and stone sills. Centre gable formerly with bargeboard and finial, over blank roundel inscribed above and below: Western District Ynysderw Gate. Rendered windowless end walls.e of centre doorway.  

Not inspected.  

Included for its special interest as a well-preserved earlier C19 tollhouse.