Mertoun Bridge, Tollhouse
Toll House (19th Century)
Site Name Mertoun Bridge, Tollhouse
Classification Toll House (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) River Tweed; Capilaw Road
Canmore ID 146113
Site Number NT63SW 62
NGR NT 60899 32015
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/146113
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish St Boswells
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Roxburghshire
Standing to the east of Mertoun Bridge is a toll-house of nineteenth-century date.
The house itself is of two storeys, but only the upper storey overlooks the road, which appears to have been carried on an embankment on the approach to the bridge.
The tolls collected here would have been used to maintain the road and the nearby bridge.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
NT63SW 62 60899 32015
Location formerly cited as NT 6090 3201, and formerly entered in error within Mertoun parish.
For associated Mertoun Bridge (adjacent to NE), see NT63SW 61.
(Location cited as NT 610 321). Mertoun Bridge (NT63SW 61) and tollhouse (NT63SW 62), built 1837, engineer James Slight, Edinburgh. A 5-span bridge, built entirely of dressed stone, with flat segmental arches on slender piers with rounded cutwaters. The tollhouse is a 2-storey building set into the embanked approach to the bridge, with the toll door and bay window at first-floor level.
J R Hume 1976.
Sbc Note (15 April 2016)
Visibility: Standing structure or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council