Toll House (Including Pilot House) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. Toll house.

Toll House (Including Pilot House)

WRENN ID
lesser-quartz-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 January 1971
Type
Toll house
Address
Toll House (Including Pilot House), Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
OS grid reference
SH 590 371
Coordinates
52.91326, -4.09807
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Toll House, which includes the Pilot House, is a three-storey building constructed partly of weather-boarded, timber-framed materials. It features jettied upper storeys and has a rendered, stepped gable chimney on the left side. The ground floor displays a bowed, small-pane shop window in a Georgian style, flanked by two 6-pane glazed doors. Above this, there is an iron-railed balcony on the first floor, with 16-pane French windows in the centre. The second floor has a paired 8-pane casement window, complete with external slatted shutters.

On the left-hand (northwest) corner, there is a rendered, turret-like projection at ground level, topped with a railed semi-circular platform. This platform holds a polychromed life-sized statue of St. Peter in the act of preaching, sheltered by a sloped octagonal canopy. A painted wrought-iron hanging sign is displayed at the front. Between the turret and the projecting chimney breast on the gable end, there is a shelter with a lean-to roof. The chimney features an arched, small-pane window on the ground floor, with an applied relief plaque above it. To the left of the chimney, a flight of steps with a parapet rises in an L-shape to a tall arched entrance, which has a lower arched, boarded door. A wide arch connects the Toll House to the Bridge House beyond.

At the rear, the Pilot House adjoins the Toll House. This is a two-storey structure, also weather-boarded, with wide, horizontal, metal-framed windows on both floors that face out across the estuary.

Local climate

Toll House (Including Pilot House) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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