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
3665
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/03/1966
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Lon-Isaf Gate
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Glasinfryn, Bangor
Locality
Lon Isaf
Easting
260188
Northing
369383
Street Side
Location
Located on its own on west side of former London to Holyhead Road, which is now by-passed by the present A 5 and serves as a minor gated road between the A 5 and Llandygai; cottage has low rubblestone boundary wall with stone-on-edge coping.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1825 to a design by Thomas Telford as a toll keeper's cottage on the London to Holyhead road, turnpiked by Thomas Telford between 1815 and 1830.
Exterior
Single-storey T-plan building. Roughly coursed rubblestone with traces of limewash remaining; hipped slate roof. Main range aligned north-south with splayed projection to centre fronted by lower pedimented section serving as entrance porch. Main range has horned 6-paned sash windows on either side of splayed projection with blind window to right end wall. Projection has 2-light 12-paned casement window in right splay and 6-paned sash window to left splay; pedimented porch has boarded door to right and blind windows to left and front, latter segmental-arched and which originally held a board listing the toll charges. Rendered ridge stack to centre of main range. C20 extension at rear.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included at II* as an exceptionally well-preserved early C19 toll keeper's cottage on a remarkably unaltered stretch (owing to by-passing) of the former turnpike road; strong group value with weigh house and original roadside walling complete with depot directly opposite.
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