The Old Toll House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Toll house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Toll House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-window-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- The Old Toll House, Muchelney, TA10 0DF
- OS grid reference
- ST 429 249
- Coordinates
- 51.02149, -2.81536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Toll House is a former toll house dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed of brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a colourwashed exterior and a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate. A large brick chimney stack occupies the centre of the roof. The building is in a 'T' shape, with a single-storey, three-bay road-facing elevation. The central bay projects forward with a chamfered shape. Pointed arched windows with a 'Y' traceried design are found on each facet of the main elevation, except for the centre of the projection, which contains a doorway with a panelled lower half and matching glazing above, also within a pointed arch. The interior remains unseen. The road serving the toll house was taken over by the Langport, Somerton and Castle Cary Trust in 1792, and the building was likely constructed shortly thereafter.
Local climate
The Old Toll House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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