The Toll House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Toll house. 2 related planning applications.
The Toll House
- WRENN ID
- little-grate-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- The Toll House, 1, Castle Square, Morpeth, NE61 1YB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 200 857
- Coordinates
- 55.16587, -1.68643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Toll House is an early 19th-century toll house located in Morpeth, constructed from ashlar stone with a Welsh slate roof. It has a semi-octagonal plan and is attached to the side of Nos. 3-7 Pethgate Court. The building is a single storey with five bays. The central entrance features a six-panel door topped by a pedimented stone hood supported by brackets. There are 12-pane sash windows set in plain reveals, with the outer bays canted. Similar windows are found on the returns, and the structure has a semi-octagonal lean-to roof.
Local climate
The Toll House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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