Description

ASHOVER
SK36NE BIRKIN LANE
1264-0/6/11 (West side)
16/09/91 Toll Bar Cottage
II
Toll house. Late C18 with C19 additions, altered and extended
1992. Regularly coursed rubble gritstone with quoins, coped
gables to earlier part, brick gabled chimneys, and stone and
Welsh slate roof coverings. South-east elevation of 2 storeys
and 2 bays, the north-east bay an addition. Doorway to
north-east end of earlier bay with massive lintel and quoined
surround, and door obscured by boarding to the south-west;
staggered 2-light flush-mullioned windows, the upper floor
window similar to that to the ground floor. Window frames have
been removed. Later bay with stacked window openings with
flush surrounds, and without window frames. Blocked
single-light ground-floor opening with flush surround to
south-west end. Rear elevation has long catslide roof over
single-storey offshut, with a single-light C18 window with
flush surround to rear wall of earlier bay. Lower lean-to
range with separate roof to later bay.
No access to interior.
The Birkin Lane Turnpike was a feeder route which linked with
the Chesterfield and Matlock Turnpike.

Listing NGR: SK3545865855

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513124

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)