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Summary

Former toll house, in use by 1819, possibly a bridge toll house.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1106938: THE TOLL-HOUSE

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS92SE/25
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 96670

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

SHELDON, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307.

A possible bridge tollhouse at bampton (sheldon).

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV327042.

Former toll-house. In use by 1819, possibly a bridge toll-house. Local stone rubble with a deep hipped slate roof and left end stack with stone shaft. Probably 1 room on plan with a single storey rear lean-to which may be a later addition. Exterior: 2 storeys.2 bay asymmetrical front with a plinth and string course; c20 panelled front door to the right.2-light casement windows, 6-panes per light, the ground floor windows larger than the first floor, all with segmental stone arches with keystones. The toll-house stands in a fork of the old and new tiverton roads, overlooking briton street and the bridge over the river batherm (doe).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV47522.

Osa=ss92se8.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV47523.

Sheldon, l. /tda/65(1933)301,306.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV47524.

Kanefsky, j. /devon tollhouses/(1976)17.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV47525.

Doe/hhr:bampton(7/12/1987)18.

Mcmanamon, T., 15/04/1994, Corrections to SMR Printouts (Correspondence). SDV45743.

Kanefsky, J., 1984, Devon Toll Houses, 17 (Pamphlet). SDV349663.

In the fork of the old and new Tiverton roads just east of the bridge at Bampton. A square, two-storey building, with the door set at one side, built between 1819 and 1826 when the new Bampton road along the Exe valley was built.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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