Toll Booth at Penamenpool Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Villa.
Toll Booth at Penamenpool Bridge
- WRENN ID
- blind-buttress-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1990
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Toll Booth at Penamenpool Bridge, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 694 185
- Coordinates
- 52.74838, -3.93488
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Toll Booth at Penamenpool Bridge is a Grade II listed structure. It features a slightly ramped center and a timber deck supported by piers made of four cross-braced timber piles. The original design included an opening span at the center and has plain handrails. At the southwest end, there is a gate with polygonal cast iron piers topped with ornamental caps. The gate includes two wrought iron gates with "tulip" finials, a lock rail, and a pedestrian gate set to the right.
To the east, at the southeast end, there is a toll booth dating from around 1900. This structure is timber framed with lap boarding and stands on timber piers. It has shallow jetties at the gable ends supported by brackets. The roof is moderately pitched and felted, featuring finials with pendants, bargeboards, plain eaves, and brackets. A raking dormer facing the bridge has a felted roof and cheeks, with a deep verge and brackets.
The corner by the bridge has a canted, transomed five-light window with small panes. There is a doorway next to it, and the rear elevation has three windows: a three-light transomed window to the left, a two-light transomed window in the center, and a single-light window to the right, all with small panes.
Additionally, there is a modern toll booth on the west side at the southeast end of the bridge.
Local climate
Toll Booth at Penamenpool Bridge 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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