Post by the Toll House at Ngr Tq 1450 6532 is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Post.

Post by the Toll House at Ngr Tq 1450 6532

WRENN ID
fading-rubblework-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Elmbridge
Constituency
Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1984
Type
Post
Address
Post by the Toll House at Ngr Tq 1450 6532, Portsmouth Road
OS grid reference
TQ 145 653
Coordinates
51.3754, -0.35629
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a post located by the Toll House on Portsmouth Road in Esher, dating from around 1860. It stands approximately 3½ feet high and features a metal, four-legged plinth with a stop-chamfered pier. The pier has a moulded capital band and a pyramidal top. The capital band displays a City of London shield, with lettering on the front of the pier. This post served as a coal and wine tax marker, indicating the boundary where duty was payable, with the coal tax dating back to the 1660s.

Local climate

Post by the Toll House at Ngr Tq 1450 6532 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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