Lyne Toll is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1978. Tollhouse.

Lyne Toll

WRENN ID
twelfth-column-dawn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1978
Type
Tollhouse
OS grid reference
NT 211 401
Coordinates
55.64807, -3.25465
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Lyne Toll is a late 18th century former tollhouse, designed as a single storey, three-bay rectangular building with a piended roof, located on a sloped site. It features an adjoining single storey wing on the right and a store at the rear. The exterior is constructed from coursed whinstone with sandstone dressings, including painted cills and stone lintels.

On the northeast elevation, the principal façade includes a central two-leaf boarded entrance door flanked by windows. The adjoining single storey wing to the right has a door at the extreme left that breaks through the eaves and leads into a dwarf flat-roofed dormer with "EDSTON TOLL" painted on the lintel; the right return of this wing is blind.

The southeast elevation has a window on the right and is blind on the left, following the contour of the hill. The southwest elevation features a later wing with regularly placed paired windows on the left, while the main house has a window to the right and paired cast-iron Carron lights on the roof. The northwest elevation includes a window on the left with the adjoining single storey wing to the right.

The original glazing plan has been lost, and the windows have been infilled with modern composite blocks, although they were originally 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The timber boarded entrance doors remain in place. The main building and wing have a piended grey-blue slate roof, with later metal ridging, flashing, and valleys. The rainwater goods are painted cast-iron, and there is a harled brick stack with a later single can at the central roofline.

The interior of the main house was not seen in 2002, but the wing contains a 20th century scullery.

Local climate

Lyne Toll sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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