The Toll House and Attached Churchyard Wall
THE TOLL HOUSE AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047862
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- The Toll House and Attached Churchyard Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOLL HOUSE AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047862
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Toll House and Attached Churchyard Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOLL HOUSE AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOLL HOUSE AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 57888 94132
Details
DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 (East side) 5/41 The Toll House and attached 18/07/63 churchyard wall (Formerly listed as Turnpike Cottage)
GV II
Toll house, now office. Early C19. Brick with rubbed-brick arches, on a limestone ashlar plinth; old plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs. Plan has a half octagon breaking forward from a rectangular section, plus a rear outshut. One storey. Front has a central doorway with a stone pedimented canopy on carved brackets and a sash door; 12-pane sashes in canted sides are set within recesses with cambered arches. Leaded casements, in end walls of rectangular section, are set within segmental-arched recesses. Hipped roof has a central octagonal brick stack. Slated outshut has further leaded casements and plank door. Inscriptions on plinth record several floods, the earliest 1823. Interior not inspected. C17, or earlier, churchyard wall runs approx. 35 metres. to left and 1 metre to right. It is of large limestone ashlar blocks with later brick coping.
Listing NGR: SU5788894132
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248070
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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