Old Toll House And Attached Railings

This is a mid-19th century toll house situated on Station Road in Ilminster. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar to the left side and the forward-facing gable, with limestone rubble elsewhere. It has a slate roof and brick stacks at the right gable end and inside the left gable end. The plan is a truncated T-shape. The two-storey building has a three-window front. Most windows are 20th-century two-light casements, except for the 3-light window on the first floor to the right. A canted bay is situated to the left of centre, where a window now replaces a former front door. This bay has a flat stone hood supported by wooden brackets, and the porch line continues as a string course forming labelled hoodmoulds over the ground-floor mullioned windows. The canted bay's sides are corbelled out to create a flat front on the first floor, featuring a fretted bargeboard and a terracotta finial to the gable above. The entrance is now on the left (west) return. The interior has been altered. Wide-spaced iron railings on a stone plinth enclose a forecourt.