Turnpike Cottage

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.