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Tollhouse, Lanark Racecourse

A Category B Listed Building in Lanark, South Lanarkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6644 / 55°39'51"N

Longitude: -3.7487 / 3°44'55"W

OS Eastings: 290092

OS Northings: 642595

OS Grid: NS900425

Mapcode National: GBR 228Y.69

Mapcode Global: WH5SK.DW3G

Plus Code: 9C7RM772+QG

Entry Name: Tollhouse, Lanark Racecourse

Listing Name: Former Tollhouse, 201 Hyndford Road

Listing Date: 27 September 1994

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346626

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13469

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200346626

Location: Lanark

County: South Lanarkshire

Electoral Ward: Clydesdale North

Parish: Lanark

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

Tagged with: Tollhouse

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Description

Circa 1820 Thomas Telford, engineer. Single-storey 3-bay sandstone, Scotch slate roof.

FRONT ELEVATION ashlar, coursed rubble at base of side bays. Symmetrical bowed central bay has door flanked by single windows, conical roof with cast-iron finial. Side bays have windows in shallow recess. Plain coped chimney stacks.

SIDE AND REAR ELEVATIONS: Rubble with dressed quoins. Short piend-roofed wing at S end with lean-to and flat-roofed modern extensions, both roughcast. Open verges with plain bargeboards.

Statement of Interest

Built as tollhouse on what is now A73, and the least altered of the three surviving bow fronted tollhouses on that route.

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