The Gatehouse
THE GATEHOUSE, HOLYHEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390984
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Gatehouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE GATEHOUSE, HOLYHEAD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390984
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Gatehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GATEHOUSE, HOLYHEAD ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GATEHOUSE, HOLYHEAD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Ness
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3715420766
Details
1584/0/10008
02-JUL-04
GREAT NESS
HOLYHEAD ROAD
The Gatehouse
II
Tollhouse. Early C19. Coursed, Nesscliffe stone with a shallow-pitched roof of corrugated iron [presumably, originally slate]. Entrance front: 3 bays, the central bay has a later gabled timber porch to the door and a recessed panel at first floor level but no window. The windows were blocked at the time of survey [2004] but are believed to be of 2 casement lights with central mullion. The reveals and rear are blank save for a door to the rear with a later single-storey gabled extension. There is a chimney to the North-western gable end. The interior is noted to be 2-cell with a lobby entry and a winder staircase rising from the kitchen. The kitchen has a sizeable hearth with its original stone surround, although the hearth has been infilled and a smaller surround inserted.
SOURCE: J. Quartermaine, B. Trinder & R.Turner, "Thomas Telford's Holyhead Road; the A5 in North Wales", York; Council for British Archaeology.
The tollhouse is a relatively intact example of a an early-C19 tollhouse on a significant turnpike road.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491303
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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