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Baldovie Toll House, Kellas Road, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4889 / 56°29'19"N

Longitude: -2.8924 / 2°53'32"W

OS Eastings: 345146

OS Northings: 733330

OS Grid: NO451333

Mapcode National: GBR VM.G444

Mapcode Global: WH7RC.J5WD

Plus Code: 9C8VF4Q5+G2

Entry Name: Baldovie Toll House, Kellas Road, Dundee

Listing Name: Baldovie, Baldovie Toll House

Listing Date: 29 October 1991

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 362129

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25735

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, Kellas Road, Baldovie Toll House

ID on this website: 200362129

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: North East

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Tollhouse

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Description

Circa 1789. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan former toll house.

Harled rubble with painted angles and margines, grey slate roof.

12-pane sash and case windows, some modern leaded replacements at E elevation, ashlar skews with rounded ends, brick gable stacks with thankstanes.

W ELEVATION: 3 bays grouped towards centre; unfortunate harled and glazed porch at centre with door and piended roof; 2-leaf door with fanlight at main elevation; windows at left and right, 3 smaller windows at 1st floor under eaves.

S GABLE: narrow window at 1st floor left, later window at right.

N GABLE: 4-pane window at ground floor right.

E ELEVATION: 2 windows at ground floor off-centre.

INTERIOR: largely reconstructed.

Statement of Interest

The toll house was probably erected as a result of 'An Act for Repairing the Roads in the County of Forfar', 1789.

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