Toll Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Hospital.

Toll Gate Cottage

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 December 1976
Type
Hospital
Address
Toll Gate Cottage, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 052 280
Coordinates
51.94253, -3.38051
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Toll Gate Cottage is a one-and-a-half storey cottage built from painted rubble and topped with slate roofs that are half-hipped to the north and south. The west elevation features two bays with sash windows that do not have glazing bars, and the upper windows are partly located in the roof space. On the north elevation, there is a sash window without glazing bars above a fixed window. The east elevation includes a very tall rendered chimney and a single-storey lean-to addition. The elevation facing the canal has a single first floor sash window, a tall rendered chimney, and a gabled addition.

Local climate

Toll Gate Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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