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Summary

A large two-storey building with a projecting porch alongside the A3124, which is recorded as a toll house on the 19th century Asheigney Tithe Apportionment. Sheldon lists a toll house near Hollocombe Moor which could be this one.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS51SE/29
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SS51SE6
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SS61SW4

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TOLL HOUSE (Built, XVIII to XIX - 1751 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

Q/RR1/4/G12 H4 (Record Office Collection). SDV529.

Building recorded on the 1861 Riddlecombe Moor enclosure award.

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

Building recorded as Toll House & Garden (plot 8) on the Ashreigney Tithe Apportionment.

Sheldon, L., 1933, Devon Toll-Houses, 305 (Article in Serial). SDV341560.

Sheldon lists a toll house near Hollacombe Moor on the Exeter Torrington Road.

Kanefsky, J., 1976, Devon Tollhouses, 22 (Monograph). SDV7980.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SS61SW4 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV362998.

There is a toll house near Hollocombe Moor on the Exeter to Torrington road (citing Sheldon). Donn's map of 1765 and the 1809 1 inch Ordnance Survey map which usually show turnpike roads do not mark any near Hollocombe.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SS51SE16 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV527.

There is a tollhouse on the west side of the B3220, Exeter to Torrington road, just to the south of Dolton Beacon crossroads. It is a large two storey building with a projecting porch. The road dates to 1835 (citing Kanefsky).

Kanefsky, J., 1984, Devon Toll Houses, 22 (Pamphlet). SDV349663.

Just south of Dolton Beacon crossroads on the west side of the B3220 Exeter - Torrington road, 4 miles north of Winkleigh. a large two-storey building with a projecting porch. The road dates from 1835.

Wilmshurst, F. A., 2000, Enclosure Award Map Overlay (Cartographic). SDV19484.

Wilmshurst, F. A., 2000, Enclosure Awards File (Un-published). SDV19483.

Rosevear, A., 2008, Devon Tollhouses (Un-published). SDV351734.

Beacon Cottage, on the west side of the A3124. Toll house built in 1835.

Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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