Old Toll Bar, Gretna

This is an early 19th-century tollhouse of rectangular plan with a piend roof. An L-shaped range of outbuildings is located to the north, and modern additions have been made to the south. The tollhouse is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and has been whitewashed with painted margins.

The west elevation, excluding the modern additions, features two bays. The right bay is bowed and contains a doorway with an iron lamp bracket and flanking lights. The left bay has flanking pilaster strips and a single window with latticed-glazed casements. The building has an eaves band, a central apex stack, and a roof with projecting eaves covered in graded slates.

It is similar in design to the Tollhouse near Johnstone bridge. The Statutory address is “Scotland’s First House.” John Hume’s Industrial Archaeology volume I, published in 1976, references the building on page 99.