The Old Toll House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Toll house.
The Old Toll House
- WRENN ID
- former-wattle-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- The Old Toll House, Burrowfield, Bruton
- OS grid reference
- ST 687 351
- Coordinates
- 51.11449, -2.44817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Toll House is an early 19th-century toll house located in Bruton, constructed from local stone rubble with a plain clay tile roof featuring pierced ornamental bargeboards on the gables. The building has an irregular hexagonal shape, with gables on three facets of the west side and rear extensions. It stands two storeys high with irregular facades. The windows are small-pane casements set under voussoired segmental arches. There is a timber porch with ornamental bargeboarding on the northwest facet, while a matching porch that was originally on the southwest facet has been removed and replaced by a matching window. This picturesque corner building may date back to 1831, when the Bruton Trust took over the new road to Frome.
Local climate
The Old Toll House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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