Details
TAVISTOCK HAMLETS
SX 47 SW
5/147 The Old Toll House
2.2.76
GV II
Toll house, now house. Circa 1830, with alterations and additions of late C20.
Rubble, rendered with granite dressings, asbestos slate roof with gable end stack to
left.
Single-room plan, heated by left gable end stack, originally with narrow rear
outshut, replaced by 2-storey C20 extension. Picturesque Gothic style.
Symmetrical front of 2 storeys, with central doorway, door with cover strips and
chamfered granite jambs, hood on wooden brackets. Flanking windows in spalys to left
and right, both 2-light casements, to right with Y-tracery and glazing bars, to left
a C20 replacement with glazing bars, both with pointed arched and chamfered granite
surrounds. The corners above are supported on large granite corbels. At first floor
a single similar pointed arched window with C20 replacement casements. Left gable
end has external stack, single pointed arched casement with glazing bars at ground
floor to left of flue. Single-storey porch attached at junction with rear addition,
with 4-centred arched door with raised fillets, pitched roof of porch continued along
rear wing to left. Rear wing of 2 storeys and 3 windows, all pointed arched
casements at first floor, casements at ground floor. Right gable end has quoin
visible at junction to rear wing, pointed arched window with 6-pane sash at first
floor left. Rear wing of 3 storeys because of slope of ground, has garage
underneath, 3 windows at first floor and 2 at second floor.
Interior rear wall of single room removed, fireplace at front with cambered granite
head, front door blocked internally. Much altered with C20 rebuilding.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number:
94047
Legacy System:
LBS
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