Description

SW 52 NE GERMOE ASHTON

6/206 The Toll House

II

Toll house for turnpike road. Datestone 1864. Dressed granite brought to course at
front, otherwise mixed rubble; dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills and lintels.
Grouted scantle slate roofs with granite coped gable ends, hipped over canted porch
at front, roll moulded black-glazed ridge tiles, lower parallel gable ended wings at
rear, the left hand wing with granite coped gable. 2 lateral brick chimneys over the
original rear wall, 3 circa late C19 octagonal clay chimney pots with moulded
cornices. Cast-iron ogee gutters.
Plan: originally probably 2 rooms with canted entrance porch for observing the
highway at the front. Extended circa late C19 with 2 parallel one-room plan rear
wings at right angles to the rear, first the left hand wing then the right hand wing.
Chimneys rebuilt contemporary with the wings.
Single storey. Symmetrical 1:1:1 bay 4 windows south front. Central canted porch
with central doorway and window in each side wall and window to middle of each bay
left and right. All circa late C19 4-pane sashes.
Interior not inspected.
A. later C19 development of toll house design and virtually unaltered since the late
Cl9.

Listing NGR: SW5999628691

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26454266

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)