Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
16265
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/08/1995
Date of Amendment
02/08/1995
Name of Property
Gate House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Cynwyl Gaeo
Town
Locality
Pumpsaint
Easting
265062
Northing
241269
Street Side
Location
Prominent site on W side of A482 between Pumpsaint and Pont Twrch.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19 former toll-collector's cottage. This section of road was maintained by the Llandovery/Lampeter Turnpike Trust which received its first Act in 1778. The toll-cottage is of a slightly later date. The toll-gate survives at the entrance to Ddyfadfa, opposite.
Exterior
Smooth-rendered painted single-storey elevations. Slate roof, hipped angles to front; wooden soffits. Central renewed brick chimney-stack to ridge. Canted 3-sided facade, door to centre blocked, 4-pane window inserted. Four-pane horned sash to each sloping side; all three windows with wide labels. Concrete sills. Plinth. Various C20 lean-to extensions to left, right and rear. Four-pane horned sash intact to left side.
Interior
Reason for designation
Attractive former toll-cottage; an important survival of early road-transport history in the region.
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