Maryburgh, Wrightfield Park, The Toll House
Toll House (Post Medieval)
Site Name Maryburgh, Wrightfield Park, The Toll House
Classification Toll House (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Maryburgh Tollhouse; Conon Bridge, Telford Toll House
Canmore ID 12809
Site Number NH55NW 35
NGR NH 54002 55866
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12809
- Council Highland
- Parish Fodderty
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH55NW 35 54002 55866
The Toll House [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.
For associated (Telford) bridge (NH c. 5403 5581), see NH55NW 189.
(Location cited as NH 540 557). Tollhouse, Conon Bridge, built 1809 by Thomas Telford. Telford's Conon Bridge (NH55NW 189) has been replaced and demolished, but the handsome octagonal two-storey tollhouse at the N end survives. An awning projects to shelter the ground floor on five sides.
J R Hume 1977.
Construction (1839)
Designed by Thomas Telford, built under direction of Joseph Mitchell.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Publication Account (2007)
Immediately downstream of Conon Bridge on the north bank of the River Conon is an evocative high-quality reminder of Telford’s former Conon Bridge (1809, NH55NW 189). It is an ashlar masonry toll house with a two-storey octagonal tower designed by Telford in 1829 and erected under Joseph Mitchell’s direction in 1830.
The toll house is of the same genre as the Anglesey toll houses on the Holyhead Road, for example at Llanfair PG Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch), erected under Telford’s direction in ca.1825.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
