Toll-House on the County Boundary with Somerset, (A30) is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Toll-house.

Toll-House on the County Boundary with Somerset, (A30)

WRENN ID
idle-sentry-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 June 1986
Type
Toll-house
Address
Toll-House on the County Boundary with Somerset, (A30), Yeovil Road, Bradford Abbas
OS grid reference
ST 573 160
Coordinates
50.94196, -2.60841
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Toll-House on the county boundary with Somerset, located on the A30, is a detached structure dated 1854. It features coursed stone walls and a tile roof with gable ends, stone gable-copings, and stone finials. The building is 1½ storeys high, with a front wall that slightly projects at the center of the first floor. It has three windows, each with two-light stone mullions and cast-iron casements that have lozengy intersections, along with hood-moulds above. The front doorway is positioned to the left of center and has a four-centre head with a separate label above it. The door itself is made of planks and is fitted with strap hinges.

Local climate

Toll-House on the County Boundary with Somerset, (A30) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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