The Toll House and Attached Churchyard Wall is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Toll house, office. 1 related planning application.
The Toll House and Attached Churchyard Wall
- WRENN ID
- tall-joist-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Toll house, office
- Address
- The Toll House and Attached Churchyard Wall, High Street, Dorchester, OX10 7JT
- OS grid reference
- SU 578 941
- Coordinates
- 51.64302, -1.16481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Toll House, now an office, was built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from brick with decorative brick arches over the windows, resting on a limestone ashlar plinth. The roof is covered with plain tiles and Welsh slate. The building’s design includes a half-octagon that projects forward from the main rectangular section, with a further outshut at the rear.
The front of the building features a central doorway with a stone canopy supported by carved brackets, and a sash window behind it. The canted sides of the octagon have 12-pane sash windows recessed within arched openings. Leaded casement windows in the end walls of the rectangular section are also set within segmental-arched recesses. A central octagonal brick chimney rises from a hipped roof. The outshut has further leaded casements and a plank door. Inscriptions on the plinth detail several flood events, the earliest recorded in 1823. The interior of the building has not been inspected.
An old churchyard wall, likely dating back to the 17th century or earlier, runs approximately 35 metres to the left and 1 metre to the right of the toll house. The wall, built from large limestone ashlar blocks, has later brick coping.
Local climate
The Toll House and Attached Churchyard Wall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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