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 on the main road in to Street from the East and has the MSS ID SO.STR01
Former Road Toll House at Street (Mead) Gate, now The Toll House, Glaston Road, STREET (MENDIP District).
The principal structure is thought to have been built for the Wells Turnpike Trust in 1783 in the form of a lodge house with angular front.
Currently domestic property with only minor changes to the original tollhouse structure on the B3151 (was A39), Wells to Street road.
The roadside face is presumed to have a blocked doorway with a newer entrance to the side; the Highway Board required the porch be removed in 1883.
The cache should be a quick and easy find.
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.