Wilford Bridge Toll House

WILFORD BRIDGE TOLL HOUSE, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255202
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Wilford Bridge Toll House
Statutory Address:
WILFORD BRIDGE TOLL HOUSE, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255202
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Wilford Bridge Toll House
Statutory Address 1:
WILFORD BRIDGE TOLL HOUSE, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WILFORD BRIDGE TOLL HOUSE, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SK 56945 38215

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK53NE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT 646-1/7/668 (South side) Wilford Bridge Toll House

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Bridge toll house, now shop. 1870. By EW Hughes. Restored c1975. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof, and external rear wall stack. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, corbel table with fleurons. 2 storeys; single bay. Elongated octagonal plan. Windows are pointed arched glazing bar casements with tracery, in moulded ashlar surrounds with shafts. Facing the bridge, to right, a moulded brick pointed arched opening divided by a stone lintel. To left, a ticket window, to right, a doorway. In the tympanum, a toll board dated 1826. To left, a window. Above, a lead clad dormer with a similar window. Each return has a similar window and dormer. INTERIOR refitted as a shop, late C20. The original bridge was a cast-iron structure by Andrew Handyside of Derby. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 273).

Listing NGR: SK5694538215

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Legacy System number:
458930
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 273

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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