Turnpike Cottage

SX 36 MW CALLINGTON NEWBRIDGE

7/44 Turnpike Cottage

GV II

Tollhouse. 1874. Rendered and painted rubblestone with rag slate roof with gable ends and gable to right of south (front). Rendered stacks to rear and on right-hand (east) gabled end. Single depth plan, extended to rear in outshut. i½ storeys, asymmetrical 2 window south front. Ground floor with C19 2-light casement and C20 casement without glazing bars. Above, beneath gable, C19 4-pane casement. Left-hand gable end with C19 2-light casement to ground and first floor with hoodmoulds and labels. Decorative barge boards in gable ends and below eaves. The tollhouse is positioned on the north east corner of Newbridge (q.v. Newbridge) and was built to replace an earlier toll house erected by the Callington Turnpike Trust in c 1764. Other tollhouses were also erected in by the Trust to the north, south and east of Callington, but have all been demolished. Tolls varied from is 6d for a carriage pulled by 6 horses to 1 penny for a horse. Turnpike cottage was erected when Newbridge was widened in 1874 and a direct road was cut through the hillside from Newbridge to Callington. Shelia Lightbody The Book of Callington 1982.

Listing NGR: SX3476967996