Description

TRING GRAND UNION CANAL SP 91 SW (South side) Bulbourne 4/60 Toll House - next Lock 45 - II Partly in Marsworth Parish, Bucks. Tollhouse, now a house. Early-mid C19. Built for the Grand Junction Canal Company as the Marsworth Toll Office at the W end of the Tring summit level of the canal cut in 1799. Brown brick with buff brick flat gauged arches, and hipped slate roofs. An L-shaped, 2-storeys and basement building with office formerly in N range beside the lock-pond and the house-frontage at right angles, facing E over the Wendover Arm of the canal (1799). Plinth, corbelled eaves band, plastered eaves soffit, and corbelled heads to chimneys. Symmetrical 3-windows long E front with recessed sash windows, 6/6 panes, and central door up 3 stone steps. N front has 6-panel flush beaded door in middle up 3 stone steps with iron bootscraper on landing, brick triangular bay window to LH with flat metal roof and sash window in each face, matching sash windows to RH and 3 on 1st floor but that over door has higher sill and 3/3 panes. Single-storey hip roofed wing projecting on W with one sash window. N part listed under Marsworth parish Bucks. as item 6/105 - House to south of Lock 45 on GRAND UNION CANAL.

Listing NGR: SP9286413852

External Links

• Wikidata Q26318767

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