Toll House at Brentford Lock

TOLL HOUSE AT BRENTFORD LOCK, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380285
Date first listed:
11-May-2000
List Entry Name:
Toll House at Brentford Lock
Statutory Address:
TOLL HOUSE AT BRENTFORD LOCK, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380285
Date first listed:
11-May-2000
List Entry Name:
Toll House at Brentford Lock
Statutory Address 1:
TOLL HOUSE AT BRENTFORD LOCK, HIGH STREET

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:
TOLL HOUSE AT BRENTFORD LOCK, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Hounslow (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 17355 77370

Details

TQ 1777 HIGH STREET
787/19/10082 Brentford
11-MAY-00 (North of)
Toll House at Brentford Lock

II

Canal toll house. Dated 1911. Built of stock brick with black brick dressings and Westmoreland slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and yellow and black brick chimneystack with stonecornice and terracotta chimneystacks. One storey; two windows to front. Splayed bays to each end with wooden casement windows. Projecting eaves cornice with large wooden brackets and colonnettes. Off central doorcase with chamfered wooden lintel. Original four-panelled door with deep fielded lower panels and one panel of engraved glass remaining to the top right hand panel (the other replaced). Two steps and large curved iron footscraper to right hand side. Rear elevation has projection one window and door in cambered entrance. Front elevation has attached cement flower bed border.
INTERIOR: comprises lobby with manager's Office, clerk's office and washroom to rear. Manager's office has built-in cupboards with ledger rack at top, tiled fire surround and four-panelled door. Clerk's office has built-in desk, ramped on two sides and with brass fittings, for recording tolls and there is a half-glazed door for paying tolls.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
480165
Legacy System:
LBS

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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