Please park sensibly, it's a busy road.
A tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a toll road or canal.
Many tollhouses were built by turnpike trusts in England, Wales and Scotland during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Those built in the early 19th century often had a distinctive bay front to give the pikeman a clear view of the road and to provide a display area for the tollboard.
This toll house is located close to the A46, Bath Road, in Dodington, and has the National ID AV.TOR01. It features the typical front bay window, which would have been used by the toll collector.
The building is a Grade II listed building, first listed on 17-Sep-1952. This listing details the building as follows;
Turnpike tollhouse, now house. Early C19, with later alterations. Limestone ashlar, coursed rubble, stone dressings, hipped sprocketed slate roof with brick ridge stacks, rendered addition, roof in asbestos slates to rear. Irregular hexagonal plan. 2 storeys, east elevation in ashlar has blind window at first floor and band course. North elevation in rubble has small canted bay in ashlar with round-headed plate-glass sash to each side, external shutters and hipped roof, first floor has band course, 4-pane light, quoin strip to right. South elevation has pair of round-headed plate-glass lights at ground floor, similar 4-pane light at first floor, band course and quoin strip to left. Interior: not inspected. (Sources: Verey, D. : Buildings of England Gloucestershire : The Cotswolds. 1970).
The cache should be a quick and easy find.
Care should be taken when caching with children or geodogs, as there is no pavement on the cache side of the road.
No parking is available at GZ, so park safely, and be mindful not to block any entrances.
If other geocachers would like to set caches near UK Toll Houses, please get in touch with The Chens first and they will provide a number them in the same way as the Church Micro series. We would ask that the name is in the form "UK Toll House nnn - Local name". If you have a system of numbering your own caches, as we do, please put that at the end.
All active UK Toll House caches can be found here.