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
17189
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/01/1996
Date of Amendment
18/01/1996
Name of Property
Toll Cottage at Boughrood Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Glasbury
Town
Locality
Boughrood
Easting
313039
Northing
238484
Street Side
SE
Location
Located on the SE side of Boughrood Bridge, at the Radnorshire end of the crossing to Brecknockshire
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
The Toll house was added to Boughrood Bridge in 1843 by T.H.Wyatt and D.Brandon, for the Maesllwch Estate. It was occupied in the 1851 census by John and Elizabeth Meredith, cobblers.
Exterior
Coursed rubble with slate roof. Two storeys the upper being at the level of the bridge. Lower floor consisted of a living room, entered through a kitchen, having a fireplace on the back wall, and a stair to the upper room, which had an open fronted lobby on to the road and an inner room, the lobby now enclosed with a simple door to the road. Small round headed windows, triple to the SW elevation, double to the smaller rooms, and from the lobby overlooking the approaching road. Stack on rear wall. Wide eaves with boarded soffit and bargeboards.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual example of a bridge tollhouse erected privately in the mid C19.
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