Toll House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1987. Toll house. 2 related planning applications.
Toll House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-bastion-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1987
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Toll House, Dorchester Road (A37), Charminster, DT2 9RF
- OS grid reference
- SY 675 920
- Coordinates
- 50.7273, -2.46095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The toll house, located on the west side of Dorchester Road (A37) in Charminster, dates from the early 19th century. It features rendered walls with rusticated quoins at the corners, which are visible from the road. The building has a low-pitched slate roof and is hexagonal in shape, with a later single-storey extension added to the south and a chimney stack. The windows are sash style, complete with glazing bars and segmental heads. The porch on the east side has rusticated jambs and a segmental head, while the door is from the 20th century.
Local climate
Toll House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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