Toll House at Brentford Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 2000. Toll house.
Toll House at Brentford Lock
- WRENN ID
- long-cinder-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hounslow
- Constituency
- Brentford and Isleworth MP: Ruth Cadbury (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 2000
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Toll House at Brentford Lock, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 173 773
- Coordinates
- 51.48312, -0.31131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Toll House at Brentford Lock is a canal toll house built in 1911. It is constructed from stock brick with black brick dressings and features a Westmoreland slate roof, complete with terracotta ridge tiles and a yellow and black brick chimneystack that has a stone cornice and terracotta chimneystacks. The building is one storey high and has two windows on the front. There are splayed bays at each end, which contain wooden casement windows. The eaves cornice projects and is supported by large wooden brackets and colonnettes. The central doorcase is off-center and has a chamfered wooden lintel. The original four-panelled door has deep fielded lower panels, with one panel of engraved glass remaining in the top right-hand panel, while the other has been replaced. To the right side of the entrance, there are two steps and a large curved iron footscraper. The rear elevation features a projection with one window and a door in a cambered entrance. The front elevation includes an attached cement flower bed border.
Inside, the layout consists of a lobby with a manager's office, a clerk's office, and a washroom at the rear. The manager's office includes built-in cupboards with a ledger rack at the top, a tiled fire surround, and a four-panelled door. The clerk's office is equipped with a built-in desk that is ramped on two sides and has brass fittings for recording tolls, along with a half-glazed door for toll payments.
Local climate
Toll House at Brentford Lock sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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