Description

Later 18th century tollhouse; later alterations. Single storey range with flat-roof wing. Coursed stone; base course; quoins; eaves course; raised margins.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: single bay projection; blocked entrance door (now window) with cornice supported on brackets; corniced gablehead above with clock; single window on left return; entrance door on right return. Single windows in outer bays; single bay wing attached at left.

Modern glazing. Slate roof; straight skews and skewputts; very short stack at right gablehead; remnants of stack at left gablehead; slim, coped stack at gablehead of projection.

Statement of Interest

During the late 18th century the road infrastructure was still very basic in East Kilbride. The Stuarts of Torrance provided financial aid to assist with the construction of 2 turnpike roads; one ran from Glasgow to London, passing through Muirkirk, Dumfries and Carlisle, and the other ran from Ayrshire to Edinburgh, by Eaglesham, Blantyre and Hamilton. A proposal to build a new tollhouse in the 1780s was met with opposition from the town, as there was already one on Coach Road. The opposition was unsuccessful in their attempt to stop the second tollhouse being built; the other tollhouse is at the corner of Graham Avenue (see separate list description).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77777544

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)