Description

DORCHESTER HIGH STREET
SU5794 (East side)
5/41 The Toll House and attached
18/07/63 churchyard wall
(Formerly listed as Turnpike
Cottage)

GV II

Toll house, now office. Early C19. Brick with rubbed-brick arches, on a
limestone ashlar plinth; old plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs. Plan has a half
octagon breaking forward from a rectangular section, plus a rear outshut. One
storey. Front has a central doorway with a stone pedimented canopy on carved
brackets and a sash door; 12-pane sashes in canted sides are set within recesses
with cambered arches. Leaded casements, in end walls of rectangular section, are
set within segmental-arched recesses. Hipped roof has a central octagonal brick
stack. Slated outshut has further leaded casements and plank door. Inscriptions
on plinth record several floods, the earliest 1823. Interior not inspected. C17,
or earlier, churchyard wall runs approx. 35 metres. to left and 1 metre to
right. It is of large limestone ashlar blocks with later brick coping.

Listing NGR: SU5788894132

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26299974

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets