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Description: Copley Bridge Toll House

Address: Toll Bar House North Dean Road Greetland Halifax West Yorkshire HX4 8QA

Grade: II

Group detail: North Dean Road

Full description:
Toll bridge house, now workshop and garage. Early C19. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof and stone ridges. Elongated octagon in plan. Single storey with hipped roof, central stack diagonally placed, scalloped eaves board. In each face a window, formerly with Gothic glazing except the face directly to the road which has shallow stone hood formerly sheltering the toll board (currently said to be loose inside the building) dated 1833 and bearing the initials of B. W. Kennett-Dawson, who was owner of the surrounding estate. Copley Bridge Bar is one of the 15 toll bridges which remain in North-East England. (Halifax Courier, 3rd August, 1949). E. Webster, '19th Century Halifax Travel and Transport' (Halifax 1982),p.12.