The Toll House is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 August 2003. Toll house.

The Toll House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 August 2003
Type
Toll house
Address
The Toll House, Lower Machen, Graig
OS grid reference
ST 225 879
Coordinates
51.5852, -3.11857
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Toll House is a toll-house constructed from whitewashed rubble stone and features a hipped roof covered with 20th-century concrete tiles. The building has deep flat eaves and no chimneys. The front of the house includes a board door on the left side set in a recess with a segmental-pointed head. There are two pointed windows located to the centre left and centre right, each containing a pair of casement windows with fixed tracery above. The windows have 20th-century shutters. On the left end, there is a 20th-century window that has been added to infill a garage entry. The right end features a 20th-century addition, while the rear of the building has one window on the left side. The property has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Toll House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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