Junction House at Pontymoile Canal Basin, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 March 1980. Toll house.
Junction House at Pontymoile Canal Basin, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
- WRENN ID
- salt-forge-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1980
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Junction House at Pontymoile Canal Basin, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, Pontypool
- OS grid reference
- SO 292 001
- Coordinates
- 51.69573, -3.02548
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Junction House at Pontymoile Canal Basin is a canal toll house dating from the 19th century. It features roughcast walls and is topped with Welsh slate roof cladding. The building has a distinctive bowed two-storey front facing the canal, with a lower wing that has a gabled roof set back at right angles to the south-west. Both sections consist of only one room each.
The front section has a half cone roof and a first-floor sash window without glazing bars. There is a modern single-storey gabled porch that projects forward, which includes a small window opening on each side wall at ground level. A stack is located on the rear gable of the wing. The north-east side of this wing has a panelled door with a shallow overlight on the ground floor and a window on the first floor. The south-west side features a sash window with glazing bars on the ground floor and a blocked window opening on the first floor. The canal-facing elevation of the adjoining south-west wing includes a window opening, and there are additional openings at a lower level in the south-west gable end.
Inside, the toll house is said to have panelled doors, although the rooms are likely to be very small. This toll house bears a close resemblance to Turnpike tollhouses from the same period, but it offers slightly better accommodation than some of its counterparts.
Local climate
Junction House at Pontymoile Canal Basin, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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