The Old Toll House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Toll house.
The Old Toll House
- WRENN ID
- white-chalk-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- The Old Toll House, Horsington
- OS grid reference
- ST 692 248
- Coordinates
- 51.0218, -2.43981
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Toll House is a toll house built around 1824. It is constructed from roughly squared local stone with ashlar dressings and features a hipped plain clay tile roof and a reconstructed stone chimney stack. The building has a rectangular plan with chamfered corners on the east side and stands two storeys tall.
On the east elevation, there is a plain boarded door set in an ashlar surround, which is sheltered by a timber and tiled porch. Above the door, there is a painted board displaying the full tariff of charges dated 1824, also framed in ashlar. The chamfered faces of the building feature 2-light chamfered mullioned windows with leaded lights on both levels. The south side of the building is rendered, and there is a single-storey lean-to on the north side, along with a 20th-century extension to the west.
The road where the toll house is located was taken into trust in 1765, and in 1824, the area was divided when the Vale of Blackmoor Trust was established, making this the Horsington Turnpike Gate.
Local climate
The Old Toll House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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