Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22937
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/03/2000
Date of Amendment
09/03/2000
Name of Property
Turnpike House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanllechid
Town
Bangor
Locality
Tan-y-lon
Easting
261917
Northing
371092
Street Side
Location
Located right on road in Tan-y-lon at junction between the old Bangor to Conwy road and the road which runs roughly parallel with it between Tan-y-lon and Eglwys St Cross.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Constructed as a toll house on the Bangor to Conway road, which was turnpiked as part of the route between Chester and Holyhead in the 1820s.
Exterior
Single-storey pentagonal building with splayed end to road. Painted regularly coursed rubblestone blocks; graded slate roof. Splayed end has C20 windows in original openings with slate cills to sides and blind panel to centre for former toll board; roughcast ridge stack near splayed end. Entrance in left return through C20 glazed door; C20 flat-roofed addition also on this side. Painted board to eaves on splayed end with pointing hand reads "LLANLLECHID 2 1/2".
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding late C20 windows and extension, as an essentially well-preserved toll keeper's cottage on the former turnpike road.
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