[f. TOLL sb.1 + HOUSE: cf. OHG. zolhûs, Ger. zollhaus.] A house or building at which tolls or dues are collected.
1. = TOLBOOTH 1 (obs.) or 2 (now local).
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 496/1. Tolhowse, teloneum.
1506. Guylforde, Pilgr. (Camden), 49. Our Sauyor sawe the publycan named Leui, syttynge at the tolhous.
1530. Palsgr., 281/2. Tolle house, mayson de decrepte.
1889. N. & Q., 7th Ser. VIII. 213/1. The tolhouse or tolbooth (as our town halls were called in the Middle Ages). In this place [Great Yarmouth] the name of tolhouse is still retained.
2. A house by a toll-gate or toll-bridge, occupied by the toll-taker; † a railway booking-office (obs.).
1763. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 91/1. Richard Watson, tollman of Marybone turnpike, was murdered in his toll-house.
1841. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., IV. 322/2. The whole rise of the railway from its toll-house in Plymouth to the Prince-town terminus is 1350 feet.
1906. T. Sinton, Poetry of Badenoch, 163. Her charms were proclaimed everywhere from the toll house to Castle Gordon.