Toll House Cottage

This is a small cottage dating from the late 18th century, situated on the west side of Bourne Road, south of Folkingham. The building is constructed of red brick, with some areas whitewashed and rendered to resemble ashlar. It features red brick chimney stacks and a pantile roof.

The cottage has a rectangular plan, with irregular elevations and a dentilled eaves cornice. The west side has a pitched roof with a gable stack above two low attic rooms. The east side, which is single-storey, has a higher pitched roof with a hip to the east, where a large chimney stack rises. The main, three-bay east facade has a central four-panel front door, flanked by six-over-six pane sash windows with slender glazing bars and moulded frames. The south elevation has a large six-pane window with slender glazing bars, followed by a sliding sash attic window, a door with flush panels and three glazed panels in the upper half, and a two-light casement window, likely dating to the 20th century. The north elevation has a tie rod and a nine-pane window. The west elevation has an attic window on the left.

Inside, the cottage is divided into four rooms on the east side, one in each corner, with a straight staircase between the back two rooms. A later addition on the west side contains what was formerly the kitchen, scullery, and two attic rooms above. Original features include plank and batten doors with strap hinges and latches, and one four-panel door. Some rooms show exposed lath and plaster where ceiling plaster has fallen.

The front door opens into a reception room in the northeast corner, which has an ornate, arched, cast-iron fireplace within a plain timber surround, featuring segmental arched recesses – one of which contains a door. The southeast room has red and black quarry floor tiles and a corner fireplace with a plain timber surround and a hobgrate decorated with an Adamesque pattern of urns. The northwest room has a red tile floor and a mid-20th century tiled fireplace. The kitchen has a similarly dated fireplace, retaining a chamfered and stopped bridging beam. The scullery has a plank and batten door at first-floor level, likely originally accessed by a ladder to the attic. The attic rooms retain original floorboards, and the larger north room has a hobgrate. Visible roof structure, including replaced rafters, is exposed in the northeast corner. The roof was undergoing collapse in 2016.