Toll House at North-West End of Whorlton Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Toll house.
Toll House at North-West End of Whorlton Bridge
- WRENN ID
- white-frieze-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Toll house
- OS grid reference
- NZ 106 145
- Coordinates
- 54.52652, -1.83675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The toll house at the north-west end of Whorlton Bridge is a former toll house built around 1830, possibly designed by John and Benjamin Green. It features a front made of snecked sandstone with dressed quoins and rubble returns, topped by a roof of large Welsh slates. The single-storey building has a three-bay front with a chamfered plinth. A central gabled porch projects from the front, showcasing chamfered jambs, a Tudor-arched head, and a boarded door located behind a low toll gate. The windows on either side of the porch have 20th-century casements set in chamfered reveals, while the left side has a similar three-pane window. An external stack with a cornice rises from the rear wall. The low-pitched, hipped roof has deep eaves supported by restored beams, and the porch gable is adorned with a bargeboard and finial. There are 20th-century additions to the rear that are not of special interest.
Local climate
Toll House at North-West End of Whorlton Bridge receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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