Description

NORTON SELBY ROAD
SE 51 SE
(east side),
Norton Common
4/91 Toll-bar cottage
at garage opposite
junction with
Norton Common Road
II
Toll-bar cottage. Probably 1832-33 for the Doncaster-Selby Turnpike Trust;
later additions and alterations. Cement rendered, Welsh slate roof. Single
storey, 1 : 3 : 1 bays. Central, canted-bay projection has blind centre
(originally door position) flanked by C20 casements in raised ashlar
surrounds with their chamfered mullions removed. Single-light windows in
matching surrounds to bay 1 and to each side of the central projection.
Overhanging eaves to hipped roof with 6 diagonally-set flues at the centre.
Additions to each side not of special interest. Probably original to the
Doncaster-Selby road as turnpiked following an act of June 6th 1832.
Best surviving example on the South Yorkshire stretch of this road.

Copy of the Doncaster-Selby turnpike statute in Doncaster Library Service
Archives, King Edwards Road, Balby.

Listing NGR: SE5637514957

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444304

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