The Old Toll House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. House.
The Old Toll House
- WRENN ID
- secret-jade-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Toll House, Bratton Seymour
- OS grid reference
- ST 666 295
- Coordinates
- 51.06424, -2.47715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Toll House is a detached house that was formerly a toll house, built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from cut and squared Cary stone and features a hipped plain clay tile roof with a brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and a five-bay east elevation. The first bay consists of a single-storey lean-to, while bays three, four, and five are 20th-century additions designed to match the original structure. Bay two is a projecting, chamfered wing with two-light small-pane casements on each face, and a former doorway in the southeast splay that has been blocked by a matching window. The upper windows in bays four and five are set into raked dormers, and the other windows have voussoired flat arches. There is a studded boarded door in the south wall of the lean-to, and a 20th-century flat-roofed extension on the west side. The road was turnpiked in 1765 by the Vale of Blackmoor Trust and was transferred to the Wincanton Trust in 1824, which may indicate the date of construction for the building.
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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
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