Description

SJ 3605-3705 MINSTERLEY C.P. HORSEBRIDGE ROAD
(West side)

19/76 Former toll house
11.11.81 approx. 16 metres to
west of Acacia House
(formerly listed as
Former Turnpike Trust
Toll House)

GV II

Toll house, now disused. Circa 1768. Painted coursed sandstone rubble
with red brick dressings; slate roof, removed from front and graded at rear.
Gothick style. 2 storeys. Toothed brick eaves cornice; external stone
end stack to right with later brick top. 2-window front; first-floor
round-arched 2-light wooden casements with Y-tracery flanking central blind
round-arched panel and ground-floor ogee-headed windows with pairs of
boarded shutters; central half-glazed door. Left-hand corner of front is
chamfered. Interior not inspected but said to contain late C18 cast iron
fireplace with Adamesque decoration. The Minsterley - Worthen road was
turnpiked in 1768. V.C.H., Vol. VIII. p. 301; D. T. Merry, The History
of Minsterley, pp. 36-9; County S.M.R. No. 15 300.

Listing NGR: SJ3729405079

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26470512

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