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
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 December 1987
Type
Toll house
Address
Willey Toll House, B 4376, Broseley
OS grid reference
SJ 673 006
Coordinates
52.60272, -2.48282
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willey Toll House is a former toll house built in the early 19th century, with an extension added in the mid-19th century. The building features red brick, which is partly stuccoed and partly whitewashed, and has a plain-tile pyramidal roof with a central stack on the original section, while the extension has a plain-tile roof with a brick end stack. The structure has an octagonal plan with an extension to the right and is a single storey with a basement, designed in the Tudor-Gothic style.

On the left side, there is a Tudor-arched doorway with a studded door beneath a flat hood supported by brackets. Most sides of the building have window openings with 2-centre arches, some featuring frames with simple tracery lights. The building includes a plinth, a band, and a crenellated parapet. The right extension has a window opening and, on the right end, a small 2-centre arched window, a part-projecting end stack, and a small basement lean-to. At the rear, there are doorways leading to the basements.

A new turnpike road was opened in 1808, and the 1838 Broseley tithe map indicates an octagonal building at the site of the toll house, which was owned by Lord Forester and occupied by the Commissioners of Road, later relet to Edward Price.

Local climate

Willey Toll House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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