Tollhouse, Allt Essan is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1981. Toll house.
Tollhouse, Allt Essan
- WRENN ID
- tilted-chancel-foxglove
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1981
- Type
- Toll house
- OS grid reference
- NN 918 623
- Coordinates
- 56.74026, -3.77014
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tollhouse at Allt Essan dates from around 1830 and is a single-storey, three-bay former toll house featuring a central ridge stack and harled exterior.
On the south elevation, there is a timber door in the center bay, with a window to the right and a blank bay to the left. This elevation also includes two small modern rooflights.
The west elevation, facing the Pass of Killiecrankie, has a canted end with a blank bay in the center and a window on each side.
The north elevation features a window in a lower piended projection to the left of center, with another window on the return to the right. The modern windows have a 9-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are small modern rooflights on the west elevation and two on the north. The coped ashlar stack is topped with thackstanes and cans.
Local climate
Tollhouse, Allt Essan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 73 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 52 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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