A small house by a toll gate or toll bridge where money is collected from road users.
(路、桥的)收费亭,收费处,收费所
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Last year they started using the Grade II listed toll house, as a platform, clambering on the roof for a good diving spot.
In the past the home, built by a retired dragoon guard, has been a pie shop, toll house and communal wash house.
Although the developer does not sell these products, a toll house at the gated entrance to the community will serve as a gallery of gift items and prints available for purchase.
Standing defiantly like a mini-acropolis, its silhouette still evokes a sense of place as important to Glasgow as Ledoux's great neo-classical toll houses are to Paris.
The Grade II-listed building at Leven, which is built in the shape of a cross, used to be a toll house at the junction of the main roads leading to Hull, Beverley, Bridlington and Hornsea.
It was apparently built as a toll house on the old turnpike road between York and Scarborough, and then taken down stone-by-stone and rebuilt a short distance away to take advantage of a better site.
It allowed for the building of locks, tow paths, basins, dams, wharves, embankments, and toll houses.
The Bradford Canal opened and joined the Leeds Liverpool Canal in 1774, but now only the Shipley end with a pack horse bridge and toll house remain visible.