Description

PERSHORE

SO9545 BRIDGE STREET
648-1/5/63 (West side)
05/12/95 No.80
The Toll House

GV II

Toll house now private house. c1860. Red, yellow and blue
brick in Flemish garden wall bond with stone dressings. Tile
roof, with bands of fish-scale tiles to left range; 2
staggered cross gables with renewed decorative bargeboards and
finials; and tall brick central ridge stack.
EXTERIOR: single storey. To left, 6-pane canted bay-window
with moulded stone mullions, transoms, sill and embattled
parapet. To right, 2-light window with moulded stone surround,
mullions, sill and hoodmould; one metal casement; iron window
bars. Central semi-integral embattled porch with similar
smaller side-window and round-arched doorway with rusticated,
keyed, surround; fanlight with radial glazing bars; panelled
door with metal outer door; and 2 stone steps. Inner former
stable-type door. Rusticated stone quoins, stone plinth and
blue brick plinth course.
Left elevation has further similar mullioned windows with
metal bars, and wing with blue and yellow brick pattern in
gable.
INTERIOR: has an elaborately carved fireplace surround.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built for the Trustees of the Pershore
Division of the Evesham First District of Turnpike Roads on
land conveyed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey.

Listing NGR: SO9510445364

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666655

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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