Willey Toll House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1987. Toll house.
Willey Toll House
- WRENN ID
- idle-belfry-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1987
- Type
- Toll house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
- BROSELEY BROSELEY
5357 B4376 (South Side) SJ 674007 9/273 Willey Toll House
II
2.
Former toll house. Early C19, extended mid C19. Red brick in part formerly stuccoed and in part whitewashed. Plain-tile pyramidal roof with centre stack to original part; plain-tile roof with brick end stack to extension. Octagonal plan with extension to right. Single storey and basement. Tudor-Gothic style. To left a Tudor-arched doorway and studded door with flat hood on brackets. Most sides have 2-centre arched window openings in part with frames with simple tracery lights. Plinth, band and crenellated parapet. Extension to right has window opening and, on right end, a small 2-centre arched window, part-projecting end stack, and small basement lean-to. To rear are doorways to basements. A new turnpike road was opened in 1808, and the 1838 Broseley tithe map shows an octagonal building at the site of the toll house; the tithe award indicating that it was owned by Lord Forester, occupied by the Commissioners of Road and relet to Edward Price.
(Ironbridge Gorge Museum Archaeology Unit Report, 1987).
Listing NGR: SJ6739700656
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