Turn Cottage

Turn Cottage is a former toll house built in the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and features a hipped double Roman clay tile roof with brick chimney stacks. The building has an 'L'-shaped plan and is two storeys high, with two bays on each face. The roadside projection, which is chamfered, is the original toll house. Each face has chamfered pointed arched surrounds for 'Y'-traceried casements. The front face includes a matching doorway that is now blocked with a shaped casement window, and there are blind panels above and in the full returns. A band course runs between the windows, and there is a stopped arched label course above the upper windows.

There is a rear extension that likely dates from the late 19th or early 20th century; it is more sophisticated but matches the original structure and features pairs of 4-pane sash windows on the front. The rear extension appears to incorporate a former lean-to, with a pointed casement below and a plain sash window above on the east elevation. The road was taken into the Langport, Somerton and Castle Cary Trust in 1792 but was turnpiked in 1828. A similar toll house once stood at Beer Cross at the opposite end of the parish. The interior has not been seen.