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

• Wikidata Q26299974

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