The Old Tollhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 March 2003. Tollhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Old Tollhouse
- WRENN ID
- mired-chimney-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 March 2003
- Type
- Tollhouse
- Address
- The Old Tollhouse, 39 Swansea Road, Pontardawe, SA8 4AL
- OS grid reference
- SN 716 034
- Coordinates
- 51.71482, -3.85868
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Tollhouse is a former tollhouse, dating to the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with tooled stone dressings, and has a close-eaved slate gabled roof, originally featuring end bargeboards and finials. A central axial ridge chimney rises from the roof, featuring three rendered octagonal shafts set upon a stone plinth. The front elevation has quoins and chamfered surrounds to the openings. There are square-headed two-light timber windows on either side of a Tudor-arched doorway with a keystone. A 20th-century ledged door fills the doorway, and the windows are 19th-century examples with single slab lintels and stone sills. The central gable originally had bargeboards and a finial, and features a blank roundel inscribed "Western District Ynysderw Gate" above and below. Rendered, windowless end walls are located to the east of the doorway. The building was not inspected.
Local climate
The Old Tollhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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