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Listed Building record MDR2405 - Toll Bar Cottage, Walls and Railings, Cross Street, Castleton

Type and Period (5)

  • ? (Elizabethan to Georgian - 1600 AD? to 1800 AD?)
  • (Elizabethan to 21st Century - 1600 AD? to 2050 AD)
  • (Elizabethan to 21st Century - 1600 AD? to 2050 AD)
  • (Elizabethan to 21st Century - 1600 AD? to 2050 AD)
  • (Victorian to 21st Century - 1900 AD? to 2050 AD)

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Full Description

Toll Bar Cottage, walls and railings, Cross Street, Castleton, of 17th century date. 'This former Toll House is now known as 'The Toll Bar', and sells Blue John. It was on the Chapel-en-le-Frith to Sheffield turnpike road of 1810.' (1) From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 18 SE PARISH OF CASTLETON CROSS STREET 7/33 (South Side) Toll Bar Cottage and Shop , and attached wall and railings GV II Pair of cottages, now cottage and shop. C17 and later. Rubblestone with gritstone dressings and quoins. Stone slate roof with stone ridge stack and stone stack in the pitch of the roof. Two storeys. North elevation of five bays. House on the right with central doorway with recessed stone surround and C20 door. Flanked on each side by C20 casement windows set in flush stone surrounds. Two similar windows above. A further similar, but smaller window to the left on ground floor. Shop with central doorway with stone lintel and jambs and C20 door. Flanked on each side by C20 canted bay windows. Two windows above with square section flush stone surrounds. Inside is one complete cruck truss of massive timbers and the remains of a second truss. Attached garden wall to cottage, the left hand part surmounted by iron railings. Listing NGR: SK1500482929.' (2)

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Bibliographic reference: Fowkes, D. 1984. Derbyshire Industrial Archaeology - A Gazetteer of Sites. Part I. Borough of High Peak. 11.
  • <2> Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1334532?section=official-list-entry.

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Location

Grid reference SK 15004 82929 (point)
Civil Parish CASTLETON, HIGH PEAK, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2025 11:34AM

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