Bedford Cottage Woodcote House

Bedford Cottage Woodcote House is an early 19th-century building located on Wrythe Green Road in Carshalton. It is two storeys high and features a façade made of tongued and grooved boarding arranged in a herringbone pattern. The original windows include two and three-light casements with iron diamond-shaped tracery. A prominent feature of the building is the full-height central semi-octagonal bay, which has a simple pedimented porch with bargeboards that provides shelter. There are two-light ground floor windows at the angles of the bay and a three-light window above the porch. The slate roof is shaped to follow the contours of the bay.

Originally, there was an elaborate wrought iron weather vane adorned with scrolls and cardinal points, which included the date 1758. This weather vane is now housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum. On either side of the central bay, there are three-light windows on both the ground and first floors. Inside, the front room features a fireplace with a fluted surround, a moulded mantle-shelf, and an iron grate.

According to local tradition, this building was originally an old toll house located on the London to Sutton turnpike at the Morden-Carshalton crossroads in Rosehill. It was reportedly moved to its current location on Wrythe Green Road using rollers. The Surrey and Sussex Turnpike Trust mentioned a toll-gate in Carshalton (likely referring to Rosehill) on March 21, 1865. Although no building is shown in the correct location on the 1847 Tithe Map, an Ordnance Survey Map from 1868 does depict a building at this site. A photograph from around 1870 confirms the building's presence in its current location on Wrythe Green.