THE OLD TOLL HOUSE AT SX 9132 6371

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
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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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:: SX 91320 63710

Details

TORQUAY

SX9163 TORBAY ROAD 885-1/17/273 (North East side) 10/01/75 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: SX9132063710

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Legacy System number:: 390846
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 371 373

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.