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Latitude: 53.2031 / 53°12'11"N
Longitude: -4.0947 / 4°5'40"W
OS Eastings: 260188
OS Northings: 369383
OS Grid: SH601693
Mapcode National: GBR 5R.27TB
Mapcode Global: WH548.2RF9
Plus Code: 9C5Q6W34+64
Entry Name: Lon-Isaf Gate
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Last Amended: 24 May 2000
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 3665
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300003665
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
County: Gwynedd
Town: Glasinfryn, Bangor
Community: Llandygai (Llandygái)
Community: Llandygai
Locality: Lon Isaf
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
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.
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 not accessible at time of Survey.
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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