Steanor Bottom Toll House is a Grade II* listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1966. Toll house.
Steanor Bottom Toll House
- WRENN ID
- silver-gravel-equinox
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1966
- Type
- Toll house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SD 91NW TODMORDEN (former M.B.) ROCHDALE ROAD SD 945198 (west side)
8/258 Steanor Bottom Toll House
22.11.66 (formerly listed as Steanor bottom old Toll Bar) II*
Toll house for the former 'Todmorden Turnpike Road'. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, semi-octagonal in plan. 2 outer faces are blind. The 3 sides fronting road present a symmetrical appearance. Doorway has large tie-stones. Over is semi-circular recess of the same size as windows with projecting sill and plain surrounds. Set within this is exact replica of toll board, the top of which reads: ' TODMORDEN TURNPIKE ROADS STEANOR BOTTOM BAR Tolls to be taken at this Bar under the Local Act: 1st & 2nd Geo. 4. cap.III.' Then follows list of tolls. Single light semi-circular headed windows to each floor, sashed with 16 panes. Return walls are watershot and have quoins. Gutter brackets and tripartite hip to roof. One dressed stack to rear which has single storey extension in keeping c.1980. A classic example of a toll house. K. Parry, Trans-Pennine Heritage, Hills, People and Transport, (1981), p.78.
Listing NGR: SD9451619835
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