Former Toll House Approximately 16 Metres to West of Acacia House
FORMER TOLL HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 16 METRES TO WEST OF ACACIA HOUSE, HORSEBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176024
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Former Toll House Approximately 16 Metres to West of Acacia House
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER TOLL HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 16 METRES TO WEST OF ACACIA HOUSE, HORSEBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176024
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Former Toll House Approximately 16 Metres to West of Acacia House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER TOLL HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 16 METRES TO WEST OF ACACIA HOUSE, HORSEBRIDGE ROAD
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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.
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:
- FORMER TOLL HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 16 METRES TO WEST OF ACACIA HOUSE, HORSEBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Minsterley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 37294 05079
Details
SJ 3605-3705 MINSTERLEY C.P. HORSEBRIDGE ROAD (West side)
19/76 Former toll house 11.11.81 approx. 16 metres to west of Acacia House (formerly listed as Former Turnpike Trust Toll House)
GV II
Toll house, now disused. Circa 1768. Painted coursed sandstone rubble with red brick dressings; slate roof, removed from front and graded at rear. Gothick style. 2 storeys. Toothed brick eaves cornice; external stone end stack to right with later brick top. 2-window front; first-floor round-arched 2-light wooden casements with Y-tracery flanking central blind round-arched panel and ground-floor ogee-headed windows with pairs of boarded shutters; central half-glazed door. Left-hand corner of front is chamfered. Interior not inspected but said to contain late C18 cast iron fireplace with Adamesque decoration. The Minsterley - Worthen road was turnpiked in 1768. V.C.H., Vol. VIII. p. 301; D. T. Merry, The History of Minsterley, pp. 36-9; County S.M.R. No. 15 300.
Listing NGR: SJ3729405079
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258981
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Merry, D T, The History of Minsterley, (), 36-9
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 301
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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