Yealm Bridge Toll Hut is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Toll hut.

Yealm Bridge Toll Hut

WRENN ID
lone-rubble-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1984
Type
Toll hut
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SX 55 SE YEALMPTON YEALM BRIDGE 4/255 Yealm Bridge Toll-Hut

II

Toll-keeper's shelter. Circa later C18 or early C19. Small stone rubble hut, square on plan with very steeply pitched stone corbelled roof with gable to front. Arched entrance at front. Small square look-out opening on west side. Circular interior with small square niche (or blocked opening) on east side. Completely overgrown with ivy at time of survey 1983/4. Note: This toll-hut is on the Plympton to Modbury section of the Modbury Trust turnpike (Turnpike Act of 1759). It may have been built then or soon after 1759 and therefore the original toll-house before the Yealm Bridge Toll-house qv was built in the early C19 to combat the evasion of tolls. References: The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840 by William Albert, page 209. Devon Toll-houses pages 29 and 34, Exeter Industrial Archaeology Group, Department of Economic History, Exeter University.

Listing NGR: SX5931852013

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