Turnpike Cottage

Turnpike Cottage is a tollhouse built in 1874. It features rendered and painted rubblestone with a rag slate roof that has gable ends, including a gable on the right side of the front (south). The building has rendered stacks at the rear and on the right-hand (east) gabled end. It has a single depth plan that extends to the rear with an outshut. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has an asymmetrical two-window south front. The ground floor includes a 19th-century two-light casement and a 20th-century casement without glazing bars. Above, beneath the gable, there is a 19th-century four-pane casement. The left-hand gable end features a 19th-century two-light casement on both the ground and first floors, complete with hoodmoulds and labels. The gable ends and eaves have decorative barge boards.

Turnpike Cottage is located at the northeast corner of Newbridge and was built to replace an earlier toll house established by the Callington Turnpike Trust around 1764. Other tollhouses built by the Trust to the north, south, and east of Callington have since been demolished. Tolls at the time varied from one shilling and sixpence for a carriage pulled by six horses to one penny for a horse. The cottage was constructed when Newbridge was widened in 1874, allowing for a direct road to be cut through the hillside from Newbridge to Callington.