Turnpike Cottage

WELLS

ST54NE BRISTOL HILL 662-1/2/9 (West side) 13/09/72 Turnpike Cottage (Formerly Listed as: BRISTOL ROAD Turnpike Cottage)

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Toll house. Probably early C19, extended late C20. Local stone, rendered, with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs between stepped coped gables, one brick and one stone chimney stack. Tudor Revival style. T-plan, with rear extension of 1990. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, south elevation, at right angles to the road of 2 bays, bay 1 being the projecting gable of the crosswing. Simple casement windows with rectangular-leaded panes and with labels over, 2-light to ground floor bay 1 and upper bay 2, and single-light to upper bay 1, lower bay 2 has a part glazed door set under a leanto porch with hipped slate roof on 2 timber posts at east end. East roadside gable has a 2-light window to first floor. North elevation has projection bay 2, 2-light window lower bay 1, the gable of bay 2 being extended and the upper window being incorporated in extension gable. INTERIOR: not inspected. Erected by the Wells Trust, this is on the site of the Stoberry Gate on the Bristol Road, set up c1753. The tollboard from this gate now in Wells Museum. (Bentley JB and Murless BJ: Somerset Roads: Phase 2, Eastern Somerset: Taunton: 1987-).

Listing NGR: ST5507046596