Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1988. A C19 Toll house.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-bracket-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1988
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Turnpike Cottage, Kenn
- OS grid reference
- SX 908 842
- Coordinates
- 50.64749, -3.54541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Cottage is a toll house built in 1842, located on the new road connecting the Torquay road to the Plymouth road, which was opened in 1823. The building is whitewashed and rendered, likely made of sandstone, with granite dressings. It features a peaked wooden shingle roof over the front and an asbestos slate roof on a lean-to at the right end. The design is in the Gothick style.
The toll house has a two-room layout, with the front room having a three-sided projection and the rear room likely serving as a service area. The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical front, featuring a lean-to porch that has a plank front door and an arched timber inner door leading into the porch. The first floor has a granite-framed window in the center with a triangular head and small panes, including arched glazing bars. Flanking the porch are similar ground floor windows on each canted side, supported by iron stanchions. The projecting stack at the left end is flanked by buttresses.
Inside, the front room retains a limestone paved floor and an arched cut stone lintel above the principal fireplace, which is partly blocked. The road was constructed by the Plymouth and Exeter Road Trust in 1823.
Local climate
Turnpike Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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