The Toll-House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1988. Former toll-house, private house.
The Toll-House
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-iron-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1988
- Type
- Former toll-house, private house
- Address
- The Toll-House, the Square, Chulmleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 687 141
- Coordinates
- 50.91205, -3.86801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Toll-House is a former toll-house that has been converted into a private house, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of partially rendered stone rubble and features a hipped slate roof. The building has an asymmetrical two-room plan and is situated at the junction of Fore Street and New Street, backing onto Rainbow House.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a five-sided shape, with the main entrance front displaying a two-window range. The windows are 20th-century casements. The entrance features a plank door topped with a segmental pointed overlight that has a Gothick glazing pattern and a central keystone depicting a female head. On the right end facing Fore Street, there are pointed arched windows in the Gothick style on each floor, which have intersecting glazing bars and three-light casements with three panes per light.
Inside, a blocked doorway leading to Rainbow House suggests that the Toll-House was once part of the adjoining property. In the mid to late 19th century, it was used as a sorting office when Rainbow House served as the town post office.
Local climate
The Toll-House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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