Ilminster Turnpike

Ilminster Turnpike is a former toll house that has been converted into a private residence. It was built in the early 19th century and extended in the 20th century. The structure is made of ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with stepped coped gables and gabletted finials, along with brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and consists of three bays, one bay, and one bay.

The entrance is located on the north side, featuring hollow-chamfered mullioned windows that are two-light with a label in the lower bay one. There is a boarded door beneath a 20th-century timber hood in bay three. Bay two includes a projecting chimney stack with a small gable. The east gable, which faces the main road, has another two-light mullioned window with a label on the first floor. Below this window is a chamfered cambered-arched doorway with a square label, which is now partially blocked by a casement window. A GVIR letterbox is built into the wall to the right of the doorway.

The south elevation runs alongside the main road and has bay one rendered, while the lower bays two and three feature mullioned windows. Both levels of bay one and the upper bays of two and three have horizontal-bar casements. There are single-storey extensions against the west gable. The main road was turnpiked by the Ilminster Trust in 1759, although the exact date of this toll house is not known.