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| toll gate, Egremont | ||
| site name:- | road, Egremont to Whitehaven | |
| locality:- | Egremont | |
| civil parish:- | Egremont (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | toll house | |
| locality type:- | toll gate (site) | |
| coordinates:- | NY00781153 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0011 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY01 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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 BSX83.jpg (taken 13.7.2010)  BSX84.jpg Date:- "1856" (taken 13.7.2010) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 72) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "T.P." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Toll Bar House item:- date stone (1856) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "TOLL BAR HOUSE / / NORTH ROAD / EGREMONT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76138 / NY0078811538" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Toll-house, now private dwelling. Dated 1856 on panel above bay window; later alterations. Built for Whitehaven Turnpike Trust. Incised stucco. Graduated slate roof with stone copings, kneelers, and finials to gables; square, stone, chimneys set diagonally. Cast-iron gutter. Single storey. Gabled porch to centre has panelled door in chamfered surround with 4-centred head. Corniced, canted, bay window on right; 3-light window to south return. All windows C20 in original chamfered stone surrounds, retaining original mullions. C20 flat-roofed extension to rear not of interest." |
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