Toll Gate Cottage, Brecon, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9425 / 51°56'33"N

Longitude: -3.3805 / 3°22'49"W

OS Eastings: 305203

OS Northings: 228014

OS Grid: SO052280

Mapcode National: GBR YP.MXSM

Mapcode Global: VH6BZ.CF7Q

Plus Code: 9C3RWJV9+2R

Entry Name: Toll Gate Cottage

Listing Date: 16 December 1976

Last Amended: 4 November 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7140

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007140

Location: Opposite Plas y Ffynnon; to NE of canal bridge.

County: Powys

Town: Brecon

Community: Brecon (Aberhonddu)

Community: Brecon

Built-Up Area: Brecon

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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History

Probably early C19 with later alterations. The toll gate was moved from the cottage to Camden Road in 1860.

Exterior

One-and-a-half storey cottage. Painted rubble; slate roofs, half-hipped to N and S. West elevation of two bays; sash windows without glazing bars; upper windows partly in roof space. North elevation with a sash window without glazing bars above; below, a fixed window. East elevation with very tall rendered chimney, and single-storey lean-to addition. Elevation facing canal has single first floor sash window, tall rendered chimney, and gabled addition.

Reasons for Listing

Former early C19 toll cottage with Group Value with adjacent canal and railway bridge.

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Toll Gate Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Brecon, Powys