Gate House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1981. A 19th century Toll house.

Gate House

WRENN ID
forbidden-gargoyle-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
11 March 1981
Type
Toll house
Period
19th century
Address
Gate House, Llanerchydol, Welshpool
OS grid reference
SJ 214 074
Coordinates
52.65865, -3.1632
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Gate House, built around 1820, is almost certainly a former toll house for the Turnpike Road to Dolgellau. The exterior features rough random local rubble, with a roof that has been renewed using concrete tiles and a ribbed brick stack at the rear. This two-storey building has an L-shaped plan, with a gabled wing that extends towards the road. The entrance is located in an added porch at the angle between this wing and the range that runs at right angles to it. The wing includes a canted bay window on the ground floor and a two-light casement window above, which has a four-centred arched head set within a chamfered architrave. Similar windows are found in the gable end of the other range. All windows are adorned with ornamental cast-iron diamond lattice glazing. The Gate House is listed as a good example of an early 19th-century toll house, retaining much of its original picturesque design elements.

Local climate

Gate House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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