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Summary

A tollhouse of the torquay trust, angle-fronted, with a slate-hung front and toll-board recess.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX85SE/51
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TOLL HOUSE (XVIII to XXI - 1751 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV149328.

Osa=sx85se19.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV149329.

Kanefsky, j. /devon tollhouses/(1976)25.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV149330.

Doe/hhr:kingswear(21/5/1985)14.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV149331.

Des=albert, w. /the turnpike road system in england 1663-1840/212.

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV327000.

Early c19 rough cast with slate-hung splayed three sided end to road. Slate hipped roof. Two storeys. Three window splayed front. Two light casements with glazing bars, centre first floor blind. Central plain doorway with plank door. Two chimney stacks on side wall. The turnpike act for newton abbot to kingswear was 1765 but this tollhouse appears to have been built in early c19. Reference: the turnpike road system in england 1663-1840 by william albert (doe).

Kanefsky, J., 1984, Devon Toll Houses, 25 (Pamphlet). SDV349663.

Between Brixham and Kingswear on the B3205, half a mile north-east of Kingswear at the junction of the minor road to Nethway. An angle-fronted tollhouse on the east side of the junction, with a slate-hung front and toll-board recess.

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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