Toll Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1990. Toll house. 1 related planning application.

Toll Cottage

WRENN ID
pitched-rampart-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1990
Type
Toll house
Address
Toll Cottage, A379, Modbury, PL21 0SR
OS grid reference
SX 663 509
Coordinates
50.34329, -3.87927
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Toll Cottage is an early 19th-century toll house located on the north side of the A379 in Modbury. The cottage is rendered and features a slate roof. It is a small structure with canted corners at the front and has a large back extension that is not of special interest. The building stands two storeys high and has a 2-light horizontal bar casement window with a pointed arch and Y-tracery on each level of both canted faces. There is a plank door in a pointed opening, which is sheltered by an open gabled porch with solid cheeks. A brick stack is situated on the west side of the cottage. Toll Cottage is positioned on the Modbury to Kingsbridge Turnpike, at the junction with the older road leading from the town centre.

Local climate

Toll Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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