Description

SE5OSW SPROTBROUGH BOAT LANE
(east side)

7/138 The Toll House

II

Toll House. 1849 for Sir Joseph William Copley (press cutting); C20 additions.
Dressed sandstone, ashphalt roof. Single storey with half basement, 3 bays.
Plinth; chamfered, ashlar quoins. Central bay breaks forward and has renewed
panelled door in architrave. Flanking bays have renewed casements with glazing
bars, blocks to moulded sills, architraves. Ashlar frieze and deep cornice with
blocking course. Moulded plinth to renewed central stack with tabling. Right
return as outer bays. Altered fenestration on left return and rear. C20 garage
addition to left not of special interest. Tolls collected here for passage over
Sprotbrough Bridge were said to have been given by the Copley family to the
Doncaster Dispensary.

Press cutting in possession of occupant: Doncaster Star, 15 Jan 1974.

Listing NGR: SE5377501561

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26575092

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]