The Toll House

SW 52 NE GERMOE ASHTON

6/206 The Toll House II

Toll house for turnpike road. Datestone 1864. Dressed granite brought to course at front, otherwise mixed rubble; dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills and lintels. Grouted scantle slate roofs with granite coped gable ends, hipped over canted porch at front, roll moulded black-glazed ridge tiles, lower parallel gable ended wings at rear, the left hand wing with granite coped gable. 2 lateral brick chimneys over the original rear wall, 3 circa late C19 octagonal clay chimney pots with moulded cornices. Cast-iron ogee gutters. Plan: originally probably 2 rooms with canted entrance porch for observing the highway at the front. Extended circa late C19 with 2 parallel one-room plan rear wings at right angles to the rear, first the left hand wing then the right hand wing. Chimneys rebuilt contemporary with the wings. Single storey. Symmetrical 1:1:1 bay 4 windows south front. Central canted porch with central doorway and window in each side wall and window to middle of each bay left and right. All circa late C19 4-pane sashes. Interior not inspected. A. later C19 development of toll house design and virtually unaltered since the late Cl9.

Listing NGR: SW5999628691