Turnpike House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Turnpike House
- WRENN ID
- distant-arch-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Turnpike House, Cheddar Road, Wedmore, BS28 4JF
- OS grid reference
- ST 441 510
- Coordinates
- 51.25551, -2.80235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike House is a house and toll booth located on Cheddar Road in Wedmore, dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of painted rubble and features a double-Roman and pantile roof with three brick stacks. The house has a symmetrical front with two storeys and three bays, showcasing two and three-light casements that include horizontal glazing bars and brick voussoirs. The central door opening contains a four-panelled door, with the top two panels being glazed, and is topped by a wooden hood supported by two wooden posts.
To the right of the house is the toll booth, which is a single-storey, five-sided structure with a hipped roof divided into five sections. It has a single two-light casement with horizontal glazing bars. To the left, there is a further two-storey addition of lower height, also featuring casements with glazing bars. This building is part of the Wedmore Turnpike Trust, which was established in the early 19th century.
Local climate
Turnpike House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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