Penparcau Tollhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Tollhouse.
Penparcau Tollhouse
- WRENN ID
- dim-facade-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- Tollhouse
- Address
- Penparcau Tollhouse, Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, St. Fagans
- OS grid reference
- ST 114 772
- Coordinates
- 51.48752, -3.2766
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Penparcau Tollhouse is a single-storey building from the 19th century, constructed with whitewashed stone rubble walls and a slate hipped roof. The building is square in plan with a polygonal end on the south-east side. It features windows with pointed heads and leaded glazing, with two windows on each side wall flanking the toll-boards and one window on each side of the doorway at the south-east end. The doorway is square-headed with a pointed arch and has a ledged half-door. The eaves cornice is supported by paired brackets, and there is a stone chimney stack located at the north-west end of the roof.
Inside, the building has a single plastered space with an open principal rafter roof, allowing for a light and airy atmosphere.
Local climate
Penparcau Tollhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% 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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