The Old Toll House at SX 9132 6371
THE OLD TOLL HOUSE AT SX 9132 6371, TORBAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218985
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Toll House at SX 9132 6371
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD TOLL HOUSE AT SX 9132 6371, TORBAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218985
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Toll House at SX 9132 6371
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD TOLL HOUSE AT SX 9132 6371, TORBAY ROAD
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 OLD TOLL HOUSE AT SX 9132 6371, TORBAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX9131263720
Details
SX9163
885-1/17/273
10/01/75
TORQUAY
TORBAY ROAD
(North East side)
The Old Toll House at SX 9132 6371
(Formerly Listed as:
TORBAY ROAD
Former Toll House)
II
Toll house, now used as public lavatories. c1841 with later
alterations. Rock-faced local grey limestone, brought to
course, with hammer-dressed dressings; gabled slate roof with
lead ridge; stacks with stone shafts with platbands.
PLAN: Small rectangular building with a porch on the
north-west end; right end and rear left stack.
EXTERIOR: Single-storey. 3-bay elevation to Torbay Road. The
main block has coped gables with kneelers and a corbelled
parapet with stone bands at the base and top. 3 windows with
chamfered frames, modern glazing. Porch at left end has lower
roofline, coped gable and one chamfered blocked 1-light window
on the front elevation; rebuilt chamfered doorway on left end.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: In 1848 the toll for horse drawn carriages was 6d,
many hotels paid a lump sum to avoid annoyance to their
visitors (Ellis, p.371). An illustration reproduced in Ellis
(p.373) shows a gabled porch on the front to the right. A
lantern is attached to this and was swung round at night. The
right end stack is shown with a tall octagonal stone shaft.
The collection of tolls was eventually transferred to a
toll-house at the end of King's Drive, to avoid the irritation
of an interrupted drive along this picturesque road.
(Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition:
1930-: P.371,373).
Listing NGR: SX9131263720
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390846
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 371 373
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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