The Toll House

PERSHORE

SO9545 BRIDGE STREET 648-1/5/63 (West side) 05/12/95 No.80 The Toll House

GV II

Toll house now private house. c1860. Red, yellow and blue brick in Flemish garden wall bond with stone dressings. Tile roof, with bands of fish-scale tiles to left range; 2 staggered cross gables with renewed decorative bargeboards and finials; and tall brick central ridge stack. EXTERIOR: single storey. To left, 6-pane canted bay-window with moulded stone mullions, transoms, sill and embattled parapet. To right, 2-light window with moulded stone surround, mullions, sill and hoodmould; one metal casement; iron window bars. Central semi-integral embattled porch with similar smaller side-window and round-arched doorway with rusticated, keyed, surround; fanlight with radial glazing bars; panelled door with metal outer door; and 2 stone steps. Inner former stable-type door. Rusticated stone quoins, stone plinth and blue brick plinth course. Left elevation has further similar mullioned windows with metal bars, and wing with blue and yellow brick pattern in gable. INTERIOR: has an elaborately carved fireplace surround. HISTORICAL NOTE: built for the Trustees of the Pershore Division of the Evesham First District of Turnpike Roads on land conveyed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey.

Listing NGR: SO9510445364