tollhouseEtymologyFrom toll + house. In previous centuries it was common for the toll collector to live in the tollhouse, his housing counting as part of his compensation.tollhouse means A building where a toll is collected on a toll road. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.nounA building where a toll is collected on a toll road.“At the tollhouse the road turns inland to Gledsmuir, and he who goes to the Sker Bay must leave it and cross the wild land called the Whinny Knowes, a place rough with bracken and foxes' holes and old stone cairns.”