Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. Toll house. 2 related planning applications.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-bonework-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1985
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Turnpike Cottage, Kingsdown Road, Box, SN13 8DQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 831 673
- Coordinates
- 51.40465, -2.2434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Cottage is an early 19th-century toll house constructed from ashlar-faced and squared rubble stone, topped with a stone-tiled hipped roof and featuring a west side stack. The building stands two storeys tall, with an ashlar canted south end facing the road, which includes a floor band. It has 12-pane sash windows on both floors, with a blank window in the centre of the first floor. An ashlar flat porch has been added, which replaces the original central door with another 12-pane sash window. There are two 20th-century windows on the east side and a 20th-century hipped-roof addition at the rear.
Local climate
Turnpike Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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