Turnpike Cottage

KENN SX 98 SW

5/146 Turnpike Cottage

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Toll house. Built 1842 on the new road from the Torquay road to the Plymouth road, opened 1823 (Kanefsky). Whitewashed and rendered, probably sandstone, with granite dressings ; wooden shingle roof peaked over the front, asbestos slate roof to lean-to at right end ; large projecting rendered stack at left end with a brick shaft, second, smaller, left end stack behind projecting stack. Gothick style. Plan: 2 room plan toll-house, the front room 3-sided to the front, the rear room probably a service room. The building has been extended at the right end with a lean-to. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical front with a 3-sided projection and lean-to porch with a plank front door, arched timber inner door to porch. First floor centre granite-framed window with a triangular head and small panes including arched glazing bars in the head, similar ground floor windows flank the porch, one to each of the canted sides with iron stanchions. The projecting left end stack is flanked by buttresses. Interior: Limestone paved floor survives in the front room as does the arched cut stone lintel of the principal fireplace which is partly blocked. The road, built by the Plymouth and Exeter Road Trust, was built in 1823 (Kanefsky).

Kanefsky, J. Devon Tollhouses (1976), p. 23.

Listing NGR: SX9083684231