Shaldon Bridge Toll House, Teignmouth.
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Visit websiteThe principal structure is thought to have been built for the a Bridge Company Turnpike Trust in 1827 in the form of a lodge house with angular front. Currently it is a domestic property with only minor changes to the original tollhouse structure.
External features; two-storeys on canted bay front floor plan, having a hipped, hip over bay, roof, with walls mainly of render, roofed in slate, square headed windows with sliding sash, no porch with a square headed doorway; at end of bridge; lamp and blind window above door; band at first floor level and rustication to mimic stonework.
It is a well preserved polygonal tollhouse which controlled traffic over the bridge until the tolls were lifted in 1948. At that time the porch was removed.
The building is Listed Grade II.
By road: On A380
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Turnpikes - Toll House Architecture