Mangotsfield North Station And Tramway Tollhouse

Mangotsfield North Station and Tramway Tollhouse is a tollhouse and railway station built around 1830 at the junction of the Avon and Gloucester and Bristol and Gloucestershire tramways. The railway station was constructed in 1844 for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Company. The building features coursed and dressed lias with ashlar sills and lintels, a gabled Welsh slate roof with stone stacks, and carved bargeboards on the station building, while the tollhouse has a pyramidal Welsh slate roof. Designed in a domestic Tudor style, the structure is two storeys high. The main northwest elevation has a two-window range, with label moulds over the first-floor windows on the left-hand gabled projection, which includes a Tudor-arched doorway, and a large central gabled projection with a coved cornice above a shallow bay window. This central bay is flanked by Tudor-arched doorways, with the right-hand doorway in a lean-to that adjoins the tollhouse, featuring lintels over openings to the front canted bay. Although the interior was not inspected, it is noted to have retained its original plan form and some joinery. The horse tramways were built after 1828 to supply coal from Orchard Colliery in Coalpit Heath to Bristol and Bath. The 1844 railway station was established to serve the first dual gauge railway in Britain, as the Bristol and Gloucester converted their tramway to a railway; the line was sold to the Midland Company in 1845.