Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. Toll house. 1 related planning application.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-eave-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Turnpike Cottage, Broadway, Shipham, BS25 1UA
- OS grid reference
- ST 444 577
- Coordinates
- 51.31627, -2.79854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Cottage is a toll house built around 1827. It features colourwashed rubble walls and segmental pantile roofs, with a central rendered chimney stack. The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of two projecting polygonal wings and an additional section to the west. It is a single-storey structure with five windows on the front, which are 2-light casements with glazing bars, each light having a pointed head. There is a door opening to the west with a plank door. This cottage was constructed for the Wedmore Turnpike Trust, which was established in 1827.
Local climate
Turnpike Cottage 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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