Mangotsfield North Station And Tramway Tollhouse

The following building shall be added to the list:- ST 67 NE MANGOTSFIELD RURAL Mangotsfield North Station 2/10003 and Tramway Tollhouse II Tollhouse and railway station. Tollhouse c1830, built at junction of the Avon and Gloucester and Bristol and Gloucestershire tramways; railway station built 1844 for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Company. Coursed and dressed lias with ashlar sills and lintels; gabled Welsh slate roof with stone stacks and carved bargeboards to station building, and pyramidal Welsh slate roof to toll house. Domestic Tudor style. 2 storeys. Main NW elevation of 2-window range with label moulds over first-floor windows to left-hand gabled projection with Tudor-arched doorway and to large central gabled projection with coved cornice to shallow bay window. This central gabled bay is flanked by Tudor-arched doorways; that to right is in lean-to, which adjoins tollhouse with lintels over openings to front canted bay. Interior not inspected but noted as having retained original plan form and some joinery. The horse tramways were built after 1828 in order to supply coal from Orchard Colliery in Coalpit Heath to Bristol and Bath. The railway station of 1844 was built to serve the first dual gauge railway in Britain, the Bristol and Gloucester having converted their tramway to a railway: the line was sold to the Midland Company in 1845.

Listing NGR: ST6725475739