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Latitude: 51.7148 / 51°42'53"N
Longitude: -3.8586 / 3°51'31"W
OS Eastings: 271691
OS Northings: 203423
OS Grid: SN716034
Mapcode National: GBR H0.345B
Mapcode Global: VH4JZ.25F7
Plus Code: 9C3RP47R+WG
Entry Name: The Old Tollhouse
Listing Date: 13 March 2003
Last Amended: 13 March 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11195
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300011195
Location: Situated on the NW side of Swansea Road some 750m SW of the centre of Pontardawe.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Pontardawe
Community: Pontardawe
Built-Up Area: Pontardawe
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Tollhouse
Earlier C19 tollhouse at the former Ynysderw tollgate on the Swansea to Brecon turnpike road. Bargeboards and overhanging gables removed since 1975 listing. A damaged milestone in wall to right has VIII presumably 8 miles to Swansea. Occupied by Charles Davies, gatekeeper, 1861 and Edward Hopgood road labourer 1871, turnpike tolls abolished 1888.
Former tollhouse, coursed squared sandstone with tooled stone dressings and close-eaved slate gabled roof, formerly with end bargeboards and finials. Centre axial ridge chimney with 3 rendered octagonal shafts on stone plinth. Front has quoins and chamfered surrounds to openings. Square-headed 2-light timber window each side of Tudor-arched doorway with keystone. C20 ledged door, C19 windows with single slab lintels and stone sills. Centre gable formerly with bargeboard and finial, over blank roundel inscribed above and below: Western District Ynysderw Gate. Rendered windowless end walls.e of centre doorway.
Not inspected.
Included for its special interest as a well-preserved earlier C19 tollhouse.
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