Toll Bar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Tollhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Toll Bar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-pewter-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Tollhouse
- Address
- Toll Bar Cottage, Whalley Road, Simonstone, BB12 7HS
- OS grid reference
- SD 774 344
- Coordinates
- 53.8055, -2.34425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Toll Bar Cottage is an early 19th-century tollhouse that has been converted into a house. It is constructed from sandstone blocks and features a stone slate roof that projects over the north gable, which has a ridge chimney stack. The gable facing the road has two bays and two storeys, displaying some Gothic and Tudor details. On this gable, there is a blocked doorway to the left, a central 4-pane sash window, and above it, a large blind window with a two-centred arch, filled with a stone slab and framed by a plain surround and hoodmould. The left side wall, which faces Simonstone Lane, has two windows on each floor, all of which are 4-pane sashes with hoodmoulds. The right side wall features a large single-storey gabled porch, with a window to the left that matches the others.
Local climate
Toll Bar Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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