The Toll House

The Toll House is a toll house for the turnpike road, dated 1864. It features dressed granite brought to course at the front, with mixed rubble elsewhere. The building has dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills, and lintels, and is topped with grouted scantle slate roofs that have granite coped gable ends. The roof is hipped over a canted porch at the front, adorned with roll moulded black-glazed ridge tiles. At the rear, there are lower parallel gable ended wings, with the left-hand wing having a granite coped gable. The house has two lateral brick chimneys over the original rear wall, along with three late 19th-century octagonal clay chimney pots featuring moulded cornices. It also has cast-iron ogee gutters.

The original plan likely consisted of two rooms with a canted entrance porch for observing the highway. In the late 19th century, the building was extended with two parallel one-room plan rear wings at right angles to the back, first the left wing and then the right. The chimneys were rebuilt at the same time as the wings. The Toll House is a single-storey structure with a symmetrical south front featuring three bays and four windows. The central canted porch has a central doorway, with a window on each side wall and a window in the middle of each bay to the left and right. All windows are late 19th-century four-pane sashes. The building represents a later 19th-century development of toll house design and has remained virtually unaltered since that time.