Keepers Cottage

Keepers Cottage is a toll house that has been converted into a dwelling. It is dated 1738 and was altered in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from red sandstone random rubble and features a steeply pitched patterned clay tile roof with a slight bell-cast, overhanging eaves, sprockets, and decorative ridge tiles. There are brick stacks set in from the gable ends.

The plan consists of two cells and a cross passage, with a single-storey, one-bay addition on the right. The cottage is two and a half storeys high and has three bays. Gabled dormer casements are located within the roof space, while the first floor has 19th-century three-light casements with many panes and moulded brick sills. The ground floor features a three-light iron casement on the left and two and three-light casements to the right of the entrance. The right-hand windows have concrete tile pantiles, while the left has clay tiles.

There is a gabled 19th-century porch with decorative wooden supports on a stone plinth, and a lean-to addition on the right with a clay-tiled roof and a segmental-headed two-light casement. The left return gable end faces the road and has a date stone in the apex inscribed "IAH 1738." The first floor has two leaded iron casements, and the ground floor on the right features a three-light ovolo moulded mullioned window with a renewed base. The interior has not been seen. Keepers Cottage is thought to be the Paradise Toll House and has a very similar design to the Bonding Toll House in Dunster, which is dated 1708.