Toll House on North-west Side of Whitney Toll Bridge
TOLL HOUSE ON NORTH-WEST SIDE OF WHITNEY TOLL BRIDGE, B4350
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157553
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Toll House on North-west Side of Whitney Toll Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- TOLL HOUSE ON NORTH-WEST SIDE OF WHITNEY TOLL BRIDGE, B4350
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157553
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Toll House on North-west Side of Whitney Toll Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOLL HOUSE ON NORTH-WEST SIDE OF WHITNEY TOLL BRIDGE, B4350
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:
- TOLL HOUSE ON NORTH-WEST SIDE OF WHITNEY TOLL BRIDGE, B4350
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitney-on-Wye
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 25892 47468
Details
WHITNEY ON WYE CP B 4350 (west side) SO 24 NE 5/114 Toll House on north-west side of Whitney Toll Bridge 12.3.81 (formerly listed as Toll Bridge and Toll House) GV II Toll house. Late C18 for Tomkyns Dew, altered and extended mid-C20. Part stuccoed scantling timber-framing, part painted brick with machine tiled roof with brick stack to rear of ridge. Originally a two-bay plan extended by one bay to the north and continuing the main roofline. Single storey and attic. Windows are all C20 casements. Main east elevation has two 2-light windows in the,original part flanking the main entrance which has a gabled half-glazed timber porch. There is a 3-light window in the north extension. Notice boards attached to the front elevation provide details of the bridge's history, earlier and more recent toll rates. Attic light at south end. C20 extension to rear. The site for the construction of a toll house was provided as part of the Whitney Toll Bridge Act of 1780. Included for group value. (BoE, p 320; Garvett, D: Bridge Over the River Wye, 1984).
Listing NGR: SO2589247468
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150669
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 320
Gorvett, D, Bridge Over the River Wye, (1984)
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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