The Old Toll Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1972. Toll house, house. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Toll Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-flue-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1972
- Type
- Toll house, house
- Address
- The Old Toll Cottage, Rackenford Road, Tiverton, EX16 5AG
- OS grid reference
- SS 947 131
- Coordinates
- 50.90857, -3.49845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Toll Cottage is a toll house, now a private residence, built in 1844. The building is rendered over rubble and features a natural and artificial slate roof with decorative barge boards, along with rendered ridge and end stacks. It has an L-plan layout and stands two storeys tall.
The front of the cottage includes a 20th-century door set within a full-height porch that has a hipped roof, accompanied by small 20th-century windows. The building was refenestrated in the mid to late 20th century, showcasing a gabled half-dormer to the bay on the right side of the porch and a projecting gable end on the left. There is a two-window range facing Longrag Hill, with the gable oriented to the left-hand side.
The cottage is designed in an asymmetrical composition that reflects the Picturesque tradition and is grouped with the nearby Roman Catholic Church on Longdrag Hill. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Toll Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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