Coldstream, Coldstream Bridge, Marriage House
Toll House (Post Medieval)
Site Name Coldstream, Coldstream Bridge, Marriage House
Classification Toll House (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Old Marriage House; Tollhouse; River Tweed
Canmore ID 95096
Site Number NT84SW 25.01
NGR NT 84849 40188
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/95096
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Coldstream
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
NT84SW 25.01 84849 40188
For associated and adjacent (to S) Coldstream Bridge, see NT84SW 25.00.
(NT 8485 4019) Old Marriage House [NAT]
OS 1:2500 map, 1968.
(Cited with Coldstream Bridge). The tollhouse is a single-storey, 5-bay pantiled structure with a lower single-storey extension.
J R Hume 1976.
Until an Act of Parliament in 1856 forbade clandestine weddings, Coldstream was the eastern equivalent of Gretna Green. Runaway marriages from England were contracted in the toll-house, the one-storey building, with extension, immediately N on the E side of the bridge.
J R Baldwin 1985.
Contemporary with the bridge (NT84SW 25.00) is Coldstream Marriage-house, single-storey random rubble with pantiled roof and inscribed tablet on the lower extension. The Marriage-house was where the tolls were exacated until their abandonment in 1826.
C A Strang 1994.
see also NT84SW 25.0 Coldstream Bridge
Photographic Survey (October 1961)
Photographic survey of buildings in Coldstream, Berwickshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1961.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding building.
Information from Scottish Borders Council.
