The Old Toll House

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.