Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. A C18 Toll house.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-postern-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, Carhampton, Somerset West and Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 002 432
- Coordinates
- 51.17972, -3.42859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Keepers Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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