Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Cottage.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- north-terrace-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ATWORTH BATH ROAD ST 86 NE (south side) 2/15 No 118 (Turnpike Cottage) GV II
Detached cottage. Mid C17, C18 addition. Rubble stone, stone slate roof with coped verges and gable end stone stacks with moulded cappings. Single-storey and attic, 2-window. Square stone porch with planked door to left, one 2-light cyma-mullioned casement to left and two to right; right hand bay is addition to right of straight joint. Attic has full gabled dormer with 2-light recessed cyma-mullioned casement to left and hipped half-dormer to right with mullioned casement. Rear lean-to extension with C20 casements. Interior said to have beaded fireplace surround in added bay. The toll gate on the Bath Road was sited at this cottage, the turnpike was set up in the first decade of the C18; the earliest in Wiltshire. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 4, 1959).
Listing NGR: ST8621866008
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