Boreham Road Toll House, Warminster
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Visit websiteThe principal structure is thought to have been built for the Warminster Turnpike Trust in 1840 in the form of a lodge house with protruding front. It is currently a domestic property with only minor changes to the original tollhouse structure.
External features; two-storeys on canted bay front with two wings floor plan, having a hipped, hip over bay, roof, with walls mainly of squared stone, roofed in slate, square headed windows with sliding sash, an enclosed porch with a square headed doorway; clock and blind window over porch. It has the appearance of an 1820s design that was moved when town improvement commissioners took over responsibility for Warminster streets. There have been only small internal changes. The clock on the porch is noteworthy.
The building is Listed Grade II.
By road: On A36
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Turnpikes - Toll House Architecture