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
22937
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/03/2000
Date of Amendment
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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