Pen-y-Bryn Tollhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 1980. Toll house.
Pen-y-Bryn Tollhouse
- WRENN ID
- first-newel-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1980
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Pen-y-Bryn Tollhouse, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 725 176
- Coordinates
- 52.74157, -3.88956
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pen-y-Bryn Tollhouse is a toll house located at the western end of the town on the former turnpike road to Towyn. It is a one-and-a-half storey, L-shaped building with an advanced gable on the left side. The structure is made of coursed rubble masonry and features a moderately pitched slate roof with lead valleys and close verges. There is a stone stack on the left side with water tabling, as well as a later attached brick stack.
The building has a gablet over a first-floor window on the right, which is a modern casement. The advanced gable end also has a similar modern casement. On the ground floor to the right, there is a modern three-light, transomed casement with a stone lintel above it. Adjacent to this is a doorway with a deeper lintel, leading to a plank door and a slate doorstep.
In the right corner of the advanced gable, there is a toll window with eight panes on each face, complete with a stone lintel and sill. To the left of this window, there is another modern transomed two-light casement, also with a stone lintel.
Additionally, there is a stone post from the former tollgate with iron pintles set against the advanced gable wall between the windows.
Local climate
Pen-y-Bryn Tollhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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