Old Toll Bar, Gretna is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. 1 related planning application.
Old Toll Bar, Gretna
- WRENN ID
- low-entrance-weasel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NY 326 670
- Coordinates
- 54.99361, -3.05359
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Old Toll Bar, Gretna sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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