Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1991. A 19th century Toll house.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-postern-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- Type
- Toll house
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Turnpike Cottage, Stokenham
- OS grid reference
- SX 812 426
- Coordinates
- 50.27183, -3.66745
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Cottage is a turnpike toll house dating from the early 19th century, with a 20th-century extension. It is constructed of painted stone rubble with rendered sides and features a grouted scantle slate roof topped with red clay ridge tiles and gable ends at both the front and back. The building is positioned with its end facing the road and likely has a two-room plan, with the main room at the front heated by a central stack located on the right side. The entrance is on the left side, leading to a service room at the back.
The exterior is two stories high, with a gable end facing the road. On the ground floor to the right, there is a late 19th or early 20th-century two-light casement window with glazing bars and slate sills. A doorway on the left features a 19th-century flush panel door and a painted stone rubble gabled porch with a segmented arch and a scantle slate roof. There are also 19th or early 20th-century two-light casements on the sides. The small two-story extension at the rear is rendered and has a lean-to roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Turnpike Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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