Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 February 2001. Cottage.

Turnpike Cottage

WRENN ID
sleeping-barrel-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 February 2001
Type
Cottage
Address
Turnpike Cottage, St. Arvans, Chepstow
OS grid reference
ST 518 964
Coordinates
51.66508, -2.69755
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Turnpike Cottage is a two-storey building designed in the Tudor Gothic style, rendered and painted throughout, likely over rubble stone, and topped with a Welsh slate roof. The gable end faces the street and features a canted bay on the ground floor. This bay has small single light windows that look up and down the road, along with a larger 2-light casement window that faces across the road, which would have served as the main door for attending to the gate. The rear gable has a chimney stack and a small later extension. All these elements, including the 3-light casement window in the gable above, are adorned with dripmoulds. The gable also showcases scalloped bargeboards.

On the south elevation, there are two gables, each with scalloped bargeboards, and all windows are 2-light casements, featuring dripmoulds below and plain heads above. The windows on both elevations have been replaced with modern double glazed units that include lattice panes. The north elevation includes a small modern outshut and a trefoil dormer in the roof above. The building was not seen during the resurvey.

Local climate

Turnpike Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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