Sold: Broad Run Toll House

Last month, the Loudoun Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to pay $230,000 for the Broad Run Toll House, which sits next to the now crumbled Stone Bridge.

Believed to have been built in 1820, the bridge remained in use until 1949, according to the 1969 nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places (it was named to the registry in 1970, less than four month after winning a place on the Virginia Landmarks Registry). The Stone Bridge had replaced what was believed to have been at least the third wooden crossing over Broad Run.

Since most people living in Loudoun now are not county natives, most have probably seen only the roof of the house, which pops up above the jersey wall lining the south side of Route 7 just west of Route 28.

"It's pretty much going to be moth-balled, but it's going to be preserved," said Supervisor Lori Waters (R-Broad Run).

The house sits on property planned for the Kincora development. As part of the proffers for rezoning that site, Kincora agreed to attempt to find a group to preserve it.

"That didn't come to fruition," Waters explained.

As a backup measure, the proffer gave the county the opportunity to buy the house and preserve it. No restoration plans are in place, but it may become a destination along Loudoun's growing trail network.