THE TOLLHOUSE, WHITCHURCH BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261743
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1995
List Entry Name:: THE TOLLHOUSE, WHITCHURCH BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: THE TOLLHOUSE, WHITCHURCH BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261743
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1995
List Entry Name:: THE TOLLHOUSE, WHITCHURCH BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE TOLLHOUSE, WHITCHURCH BRIDGE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE TOLLHOUSE, WHITCHURCH BRIDGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Whitchurch-on-Thames
National Grid Reference:: SU 63599 76903

Details

The following buildings shall be added:-

WHITCHURCH SU67NW The Tollhouse, Whitchurch Bridge 472-0/8/10004

GV II Bridge tollhouse. 1792, by John Treacher. Painted brick. Plain clay tile roofwith gabled ends. Brick gable-end stacks. PLAN: Small rectangular plan house with entrance at north gable-end and porch on east side facing bridge carriageway. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical east front. 2 and three-light casements with leaded panes. central brick gabled porch with doorwayon the right-hand return. Right-hand [north] gable-end has central round-headed doorway with semi-circular fanlight, large imposts and keystone supporting pedimental hood; above the doorway diaper pattern brickwork. Casement windows at rear and on south gable- end. INTERIOR appears to have largely C20 joinery.Note: The first bridge was buiult in timber in 1792, by Act of Parliament, to the designs of John Treacher, surveyor to the Thames Commissioners. It was rebuilt in wood in 1852. The present Whitchurch Bridge [qv] is a 1902 steel structure. SOURCES: [1] Colvin, H., A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840. [2] Company of Proprietors of Whitchurch Bridge, A Short History of Whitchurch Bridge, [08/01/1995].

Listing NGR: SU6359976903

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Sources

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Colvin, H M , A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954)
Company of Proprietors of Whitchurch Bridge, , A Short History of Whitchurch Bridge, (1995)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.